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
> | http://www.mindrot.org          /   distributed filesystem'' - Dan Geer

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Robbie Stone
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