Fwd: OpenSSH on Ultrix?
Robbie Stone
robbie at serendipity.palo-alto.ca.us
Wed Feb 28 18:12:11 EST 2001
Is this easily supported by OpenSSH? I looked at it briefly, but I'm
going to need to add Ultrix support.
Robbie
>
> Yes - PRNGd is very nice and is superior to portable OpenSSH's own
> random number collection. The fact that it is a long-lived, system-wide
> pool makes it more secure and less resource intensive than OpenSSH's
> collection routines (which need to run at least once per program
> invocation).
>
> I strongly recommend it to everyone without a /dev/random.
>
> -d
>
> --
> | Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> \ ``E-mail attachments are the poor man's
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Robbie Stone
Serendipity Simplex
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