Killing the builtin entropy code

Jos Backus josb at cncdsl.com
Fri Dec 21 15:43:08 EST 2001


On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:01:15PM -0500, Jim Knoble wrote:
> Circa 2001-Dec-21 12:10:18 +1100 dixit Damien Miller:
> 
> : Over the holidays, I intend to finally rid portable OpenSSH of the
> : builtin entropy collection code. Here's what I intend to do:

> I wonder if we might not want to go so far as to specify an interface
> for this sort of thing (sort of like djb's checkpassword interface
> <http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html>).  For example:

Both of these are excellent ideas imo.

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