Re: random device?

[Marco Gerards]

Rian Hunter <hurd@thelaststop.net> writes:

> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 11:06, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> Derek Davies <ddavies@ddavies.net> writes:
>> 
>> > Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> It even seems that there is a patch for GNU Mach to add a entropy
>> >> device...
>> >
>> > There's a patch for OSKit/Mach at:
>> >
>> >   http://www.ddavies.net/oskit-entropy/index.html
>> >
>> > But OSKit/Mach is basically useless unless you're goal is to fix lots
>> > and lots of bugs.  On and off (mostly off) I work on porting it back
>> > to GNU/Mach 1.x.  There's nothing hard about this I just find it hard
>> > to keep focused - someone could pretty easily take the patch above and
>> > port it.
>> 
>> What I meant is that on that site Rian mentioned, in that tarball
>> there is a patch for GNU Mach 1.x... Or isn't this stuff useful?
>
> Just for kicks i tried out the patch at
> http://ibofobi.dk/stuff/hurd-entropy, but it was made against the 2000
> gnumach tree, so it doesn't work exactly well. I think the files would
> have to be manually patched to account for the changes since 2000. So it
> isn't useful yet, i'll try to get it to work today though because i
> think a random device is really important. I do think that a user-space
> entropy daemon is a better way to go though, but since it isn't possible
> to have a truly competent one under Mach, an in-kernel device is the
> best way to go for now.

FYI, this was discussed on the mailinglist.  However, I wonder if they
are talking about the same thing.

http://www.mail-archive.com/help-hurd@gnu.org/msg00412.html

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Marco