/dev/urandom

[Max Shaposhnikov]

Hello Carl,

Thursday, January 13, 2000, 5:16:42 PM, you wrote:


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

CB> Carl

>> From owner-openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org Fri Jan 14 01:05:05 2000
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>> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:03:59 +0300
>> From: Max Shaposhnikov <shapa at maxnet.ru>
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>> on solaris7/sparc this device doesn't exists
>> 
>> i can use EGD but he very big (perl script!) - in memory it take about
>> 4mb! apache use the same!
>> 
>> why ssh1.27 doesn't requre /dev/urandom on solaris?
>> 
>> what alternatives exists?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 


can't find... ;-(
can you help me a little?

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Best regards,
 Max                            mailto:shapa at maxnet.ru