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[Help-gnutls] Re: Alternate random device for certtool
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Simon Josefsson |
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[Help-gnutls] Re: Alternate random device for certtool |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:01:19 +0100 |
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"Teran McKinney" <address@hidden> writes:
> Hey,
>
> I am using Gnutls 2.6.2, but have had no luck generating certificates
> with certtool. I found that it uses /dev/random instead of
> /dev/urandom, which is too slow on my systems. I could try to produce
> more entropy, but I would prefer to use /dev/urandom. The man page
> indicates that certtool uses /dev/urandom by default, due to the
> --disable-quick-random option, however it is acting as the default.
>
> Could this be a bug, or is there a way to specify an alternative device file?
This is a mostly a libgcrypt issue. Which libgcrypt version are you
using? With recent libgcrypt, I believe GnuTLS certtool uses
/dev/urandom, like Daniel explained.
/Simon
[Help-gnutls] Re: Alternate random device for certtool,
Simon Josefsson <=