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

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 02:29:35PM -0500, Dan Astoorian wrote:
> 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.)

SUNWski == cryptorand

cryptorand -> blocking /dev/random

I'd like a non-blocking /dev/urandom, thank you very much.

ANDIrand provides that.

> -- 
> 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


Nico
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