/dev/random for HP-UX 11.00

[Shawn Miller_2]

When using ssh some of my servers are really slow when connecting. These are typically 11.00 servers. The 11.23 are very fast. One difference is that the 11i servers have a /dev/random where as the 11.00 do not. I have looked around the HP site and do not see any sign of this being available for 11.00. Can some one tell me if it is and where I can get it. Thanks

[Arunvijai_4]

Its for 11.11, but not sure works on 11.00

http://h20293.www2.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=KRNG11I

This may be helpful,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/egd/

Also, what abt using PRNGD ?

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Maths/Misc/prngd-0.9.29/

http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html

-Arun

[Arunvijai_4 · Accepted solution]

http://www.josvisser.nl/hpux11-random/

Kernel based random number generation in HP-UX 11.00

http://www.josvisser.nl/hpux11-random/hpux11-random.html

-Arun

[rick jones]

Instead of wedging-in a /dev/random onto an 11.0 system, why not simply install 11i?

Also, wrt the 11.23/11i systems being faster than the 11.0 systems, are they _all_ the same hardware, or are the 11.0 systems older - the older systems may still be rather slower even when/if you do wedge a kernel /dev/random into them...

Newer systems - especially those based on Itanium - will be rather faster at crypto than the older/PA-RISC systems. That may also be involved.

[Steven E. Protter]

I have found that 11i and the Strong random number generator available at software.hp.com solves this problem.

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[Shawn Miller_2]

For 11.00 adding /dev/random worked the best. Thanks for all the suggestions.