Entropy collection in sshd (was Re: Entropy and DSA key)

Dan Astoorian djast at cs.toronto.edu
Wed Nov 7 06:29:35 EST 2001


On Tue, 06 Nov 2001 13:33:40 EST, Nicolas Williams writes:
> 
> Does this mean that Sun will put out a /dev/urandom? For any OS version
> earlier than Solaris 9?

Sun addresses that question in Symptoms and Resolutions Database article
27606:

    http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsrdb%2F27606

(Executive summary: Solaris 2.6 and later have the unbundled SUNWski
package available; other releases can be accommodated with public domain
packages like ANDIrand.)

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Dan Astoorian               People shouldn't think that it's better to have
Sysadmin, CSLab             loved and lost than never loved at all.  It's
djast at cs.toronto.edu        not, it's better to have loved and won.  All
www.cs.toronto.edu/~djast/  the other options really suck.    --Dan Redican



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