In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nelson B. Bolyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>NSS's Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) needs to be well seeded with
>truly random data ("entropy") from the system on which it runs. To that end,
>NSS and NSPR have code that obtains random data, often just a few bits at a
>time, from platform-dependent sources.
>
>The source code that performs this task for the Macintosh does not build for
>OS/X. Reportedly, many of the data sources (e.g., system functions) that
>NSS uses for entropy on older Mac OSes are not available with OS/X. It is
>necessary to remove about half the function calls just to get the code to
>compile on OS/X. This results in a significant, though not yet measured,
>loss of entropy.
OS/X should be able to use (much of) unix_rand.c, shouldn't it?
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Jonathan Lennox
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