Re: SNK key generator programs ...

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () nfr net>]

> Have you ever heard of SNK key programs (Windows or UNIX).
> They generate a randomly eight sets of three digit codes (that can be from 
> 0-77,
> 100-177, 200-277,300-377 I think).


This is the Digital Pathways SecureNet Key? There used to be a client
side emulation of one in the TIS firewall toolkit. A DOS version and a
UNIX version were both available. I also included a utility for generating
keys but it didn't use very good randomness. If you want to generate
keys nowadays, why don't you just take a bunch of output from /dev/random
and run it through od and a sed script? If you haven't got /dev/random
just run a bunch of ps, uptime, netstat -a, df -i, ls -l /var/log
piped through sha.

mjr.