Re: /dev/random oddness

From: Sandy Harris (sandy@storm.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2000 - 19:06:43 EST


George France wrote:

> On the ARM system that we are developing we have very few block devices, no
> keyboard and no mouse. Therefore I get very little output from /dev/random.
> Little input = little output.

That's an issue for FreeS/WAN (hhtp://www.freeswan.org) and other
crypto applications, especially on servers, on any architecture.

This, and other questions about /dev/random, were extensively
discussed on the FreeS/WAN list and a couple of other crypto lists
about a year back. Most of that is archived at:

http://www.openpgp.net/random/index.html

My impression is that he stopped archiving before the discussion
ended, but there is some good stuff there.

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