Killing the builtin entropy code

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Fri Dec 21 22:14:57 EST 2001


On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Dan Kaminsky wrote:

> Damien--
> 
>     The end question is, "Will ssh continue to work with no external
> dependencies or not?"

That depends on two things:

1. Whether I write or adapt a ssh-rand-helper which pulls entropy
directly from the system (like we do now).

or failing that:

2. Whether someone else does.

-d

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