/dev/urandom

[Carl Brewer]

You can get hold of /dev/random as part of SUNWski.  If you 
hunt through sunsolve's public patches you'll find that package,
it's a bit of a dodgey way to get it, but it works fine :)

Carl

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> on solaris7/sparc this device doesn't exists
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> i can use EGD but he very big (perl script!) - in memory it take about
> 4mb! apache use the same!
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> why ssh1.27 doesn't requre /dev/urandom on solaris?
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> what alternatives exists?
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