phasing out internal entropy code?

[Peter W]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:40:27AM -0600, mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:

> I'd rather sometime down the
> road make a clean break of our internal entropy system (Yes, Damien, I'm
> changing my tune.. <smile>).  If anything work to allow for a libprng.a
> which could be compiled into OpenSSH if someone so wants internal entropy.
> 
> Yes (as some will argue) it adds another dependancy for those OSes without
> /dev/random, but I think it would be best for everyone in the end.

Anything that helps convince lazy vendors (cough! [Sun] cough cough) to get 
off their tails and provide things like /dev/random and /dev/urandom is a 
good thing, IMO.

prngd: do you mean this?
http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html

-Peter