Performance issues with gcry_randomize

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:54, dekatar at yahoo.de said:

> I just want to ask if its normal that gcry_randomize in combination with GCRY_VERY_STRONG_RANDOM is extreme slow or its just my fault?

It depends on the amount of entropy your system has available.  It is
also advisable to save and load a seed file - this makes it a bit
faster.  For keys with less security requests we have parameters to
consume less entropy.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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