/dev/urandom

[SysProg - Nathan Paul Simons]

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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Ben Taylor wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Max Shaposhnikov wrote:
> > why ssh1.27 doesn't requre /dev/urandom on solaris?

	i think the commercial ssh uses a one time generated random
seed file.  If i remember, it asks you to bang on the keyboard until it
gets enough entropy, like PGP.  It also might have its own internal code
that does the same thing egd or /dev/urandom on linux does.

> > what alternatives exists?
> 
> None, that I'm aware of.  I don't do a whole lot with crypto
> since I'm in the USA. (Legal stuff, and all that, besides
> I'm *not* a mathematician...) :-)
> 
> I suppose that someone could port the /dev/urandom stuff to
> Solaris.  It would definitely be less memory intensive, I 
> suspect.

	Hmm, i wonder how hard it would be to write a kernel module for
Solaris.  They wrote a module for netatalk that seems to work pretty well,
but i'm not all too familiar with Solaris internals.

Systems Programmer - Nathan Paul Simons
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