RFE: Portable OpenSSH

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:19:57PM -0500, Christopher Linn wrote:
> > Entropy collection and pooling is best handled by long-running processes
> > (ideally the kernel) as they get many more opportunities to gather
> > better quality randomness over their lifetime.
> 
> bingo.  the kernel.

Yes, but not all of us have the choice - AIX, SCO, and so on need random
numbers.  So PRNGd is fine for systems lacking /dev/*random...

gert
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