OpenSSH and Irix?

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:

> I'd like to install openssh across an Irix cluster where I work,
> but its dependency on an "entropy pool" like /dev/urandom is making
> this problematic -- especially because EGD has issues with Irix that
> making it largely unusable.
>
> Obviously, the original ssh relied on its own random number
> generator.  While this may not have provided the same degree of
> randomness that is provided by the openssh implementation, it had
> the advantage of being completely self contained.

You might want to try the test release at:

http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/files/test

It has the beginnings of self-contained random collection. Please
report the output of "ssh -v somehost".

Suggestions for more commands (see the table in entropy.c) to collect
randomness would be greatly appreciated.

-d

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