Re: CSPRNG stuff

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Ng Pheng Siong (ngps@post1.com)
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:31:21 +0800


On Feb 8, Bill Frantz wrote:
> >So, as you can see, it is already a 'hamster' (ASPRNG). But it may not be
>
> 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.)

IIRC, it was said (on one of these lists, or maybe Usenet) that a certain
Skip implementation on Solaris has a user-level /dev/random thingy.

(Can't be more precise, sorry. Gotta update my Glimpse indices...)

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Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@post1.com>


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