A clarification from Marcus. ----- Forwarded message from Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: RFP: egd -- Entropy Gathering Daemon - userspace /dev/random written in perl Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 08:14:00 +0200
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:14:43PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > This is needed by the Hurd port to replace the kernel based /dev/random Actually, we will have a kernel based random device in oskit, it is critical to get good random. And a translator for /dev/random that can take randomness from various sources, including egd, so it's still useful. Just to clear up the "replace". Thanks for packaging this. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
