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[Damien Miller]

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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Andre Lucas wrote:

> One could also reimplement something like EGD in C rather than
> Perl. I think EGD is rather more thorough than the SSH system
> entropy-based generator - it doesn't seem to have changed a great
> deal in v2 - which is a good thing.

A small C random gatherer and pool would be a very useful thing.
Perhaps a port of the Linux/BSD kernel random.c to userspace? or
a port of Yarrow[1]?

Regards,
Damien Miller

[1] http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow.html

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