/dev/urandom

[Nicolas Williams]

If you have SUNWski / cryptorand or EGD, then you can use that for
/dev/random and ANDIrand for /dev/urandom and have a background or
cronned job to re-seed /dev/urandom from /dev/random from time to time
because ANDIrand doesn't really try to gather entropy.

Nico


On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:43:13PM -0600, Brian Hamon wrote:
> ANDIrand is an implementation on Solaris that includes source, and may 
> provide a guide:
> 
> http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/
> 
> 
> At 05:19 PM 2/1/2002, Wendy Palm wrote:
> 
> >if i want to learn more about implementing a /dev/urandom,
> >where would be a good place to start?
> >
> >thanks,
> >wendy
> >
> >
> >--
> >wendy palm
> >Cray OS Sustaining Engineering, Cray Inc.
> >wendyp at cray.com, 651-605-9154
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