Re: random device?

[Marco Gerards]

Rian Hunter <hurd@thelaststop.net> writes:

>> There needs to be an entropy device in Mach before a random device can
>> be added, AFAIK.
>
> well for ultimate random numbers an entropy device would be needed. but
> you can emulate one (to an okay degree) with egd (entropy gathering
> daemon). actually i found an implementation that uses egd:
> http://ibofobi.dk/stuff/hurd-entropy. I think a user-space solution
> would be more preferable in the long-run anyway. The L4 kernel has
> user-space interrupts, so an even better user-space entropy gatherer
> could be written when the Hurd is running under L4, someday.
> -rian

It even seems that there is a patch for GNU Mach to add a entropy
device...

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Marco