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Re: Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH


From: Joe Laffey <joe () LAFFEYCOMPUTER COM>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:58:23 -0600

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 tls () REK TJLS COM wrote:
thankfully, since just
about everyone in the world *does* have a
/dev/random (whatever name it's called by; this
code is in an OS-dependent source file that has
the appropriate name for the OS in question in it)
just about nobody does get stuck with this.


Huh? Linux has /dev/random, many Unix OSes do not (NetBSD, MacOSX and
plenty of others.)

Now they can all use something like EGD...



Joe Laffey
LAFFEY Computer Imaging
St. Louis, MO
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