Posted by Marek Kilimajer on 01/19/05 00:35

Vladas Shukevichus wrote:
> Thanks a lot for such a superb explanation!
> It's clear now why OpenSSL gather entropy for such a long time, it
> just doesn't
> have any external source of it.
> But I still need my scripts run as fast as possible :)
> There are Windows 2003 + IIS6, so there are no any dev/random device,
> OpenSSL use by default...
> Would you be so king to point what can be done to make OpenSSL work
> on
> Windows as fast as it work on Unix with a kernel-level entropy
> source?

You have to change openssl sources to use a faster alternative and
recompile.

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