/dev/urandom

[Max Shaposhnikov]

Hello Brian,

Thursday, January 13, 2000, 5:57:24 PM, you wrote:

BH> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Max Shaposhnikov wrote:

>> 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?
>> 

BH> You can install the SUNWski package. It comes with the sun webserver on the
BH> SEAS cd. It's still not a kernel random like linux though. It has a stand
BH> alone daemon like the perl package. I think it's a little lighter though.

BH>    PKGINST:  SUNWski
BH>       NAME:  SKI 1.0 Software (User Package)
BH>   CATEGORY:  application
BH>       ARCH:  sparc
BH>    VERSION:  1.0,REV=1998.09.24.00.00
BH>    BASEDIR:  /
BH>     VENDOR:  Sun Microsystems
BH>       DESC:  SKI Software (User Package)
BH>     PSTAMP:  mcm-ultra1>Fri Dec  4 14:23:39 PST 1998
BH>   INSTDATE:  Jan 07 2000 16:32
BH>     VSTOCK:  258-6422-05
BH>    HOTLINE:  Please contact your local service provider
BH>     STATUS:  completely installed
BH>      FILES:     36 installed pathnames
BH>                 10 shared pathnames
BH>                  4 linked files
BH>                 11 directories
BH>                 16 executables
BH>               3173 blocks used (approx)


BH> Brian

BH> Brian Harvell                harvell at aol.net             http://ToolBoy.com/
BH> echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|dc


i don't have SEAS cd - in russia SUN support isn't good ;-(
who can send to me this package?

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 Max                            mailto:shapa at maxnet.ru