On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 14:59, Marco Gerards wrote: > Rian Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I want to run ssh, so i can run cvs but i need a random device. I found > > that Marcus wrote a random device translator, but I can't find out where > > it is. My real question is why isn't a random device translator part of > > the hurd source tree? > > There needs to be an entropy device in Mach before a random device can > be added, AFAIK.
well for ultimate random numbers an entropy device would be needed. but you can emulate one (to an okay degree) with egd (entropy gathering daemon). actually i found an implementation that uses egd: http://ibofobi.dk/stuff/hurd-entropy. I think a user-space solution would be more preferable in the long-run anyway. The L4 kernel has user-space interrupts, so an even better user-space entropy gatherer could be written when the Hurd is running under L4, someday. -rian _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
