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Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace

Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace

Posted Mar 30, 2012 12:02 UTC (Fri) by ewan (subscriber, #5533)
In reply to: Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace by drag
Parent article: Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace

On my local machine the key was generated instantly. On other machines not so much.

Too obvious to suggest just generating the keys locally and copying them to the servers?


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Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace

Posted Mar 30, 2012 12:41 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

> Too obvious to suggest just generating the keys locally and copying them to the servers?

This is the first thing I tried, however it requires too much effort compared to other approaches. Since I am working with different distros the small differences in locations and how the keys generated makes it more difficult then it should be. In this particular case Redhat/CentOS uses NSS enabled version of Openswan.

That's not to say that it cannot be done. I did it, but it does nothing to address the fundamental problem.

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