/dev/random Extremely Slow?

Question

Some background info: I was looking to run a script on a Red Hat server to read some data from /dev/random and use the Perl unpack() command to convert it to a hex string fo

Answer 1

If you want more entropy for /dev/random then you'll either need to purchase a hardware RNG or use one of the *_entropyd daemons in order to generate it.