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Bill Frantz (frantz@netcom.com)
Mon, 8 Feb 1999 20:14:03 -0700
At 4:05 AM -0700 2/8/99, David R. Conrad wrote:
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>---Description of Linux dev/random deleted---.
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>So, as you can see, it is already a 'hamster' (ASPRNG). But it may not be
>as nice a hamster as Bruce Schneier's Yarrow, and there is apparently some
>talk of replacing the current driver with one based on Yarrow.
What other systems have a similar function? My particular interest is
Solaris because our server farm operators like it because they think it is
harder to find the security loop holes in a closed source product. (Yea,
right, but I have more important points to argue. Besides, Solaris works
well on many-multi CPU systems.)
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:27