Dec
11th
Tue
11th
Generate Some Entropy, yo
For whatever reason my Debian servers don’t generate enough entropy. Programs that read from /dev/random tend to block for longer-than-acceptable periods of time, and its not like I can just wiggle the mouse to fill up the pool.
So I was extremely happy to run across this discussion about generating entropy using the soundcard. Ah, listen to all the noise generated by the fans in the server room… we’re gonna get all kinds of random now.