phasing out internal entropy code?

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Peter W wrote:

> 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.
>
Don't be hard on Sun.  Rumor in the grape vine says that Solaris 9
will have such a beast.

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

It is unresolvable (more than likely do to the crappy network I'm on), but
yes that is the right person.

- Ben