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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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- Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH Charles M. Hannum (Feb 13)
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- Re: Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH tls (Feb 14)
- OS snobbery... (was Re: Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH) Valdis Kletnieks (Feb 15)
- Re: OS snobbery... (was Re: Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH) Thor Lancelot Simon (Feb 15)
- Re: OS snobbery... (was Re: Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH) Lars Hecking (Feb 15)
- OS snobbery... (was Re: Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH) Valdis Kletnieks (Feb 15)
- Re: Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH Damien Miller (Feb 15)
- Re: Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH Andrew Brown (Feb 15)
- Re: Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH Joe Laffey (Feb 15)
- Re: Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH Ulf Moeller (Feb 15)
- Re: Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH Thor Lancelot Simon (Feb 15)