On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Wolfgang Häfelinger wrote:
> Hi,
> since I have the same problem and since there is almost no useful
> documentation available, what I'm supposed to do if there is
> /dev/random but it blocks? Note: Don't have /dev/urandom.
If you need a nonblocking entropy source and don't have /dev/urandom, you
could resort to the EGD interface. There are currently EGD and PRNGD
available:
http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto for EGD
http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html
> Btw, is there any useful documentation around or in progress?
The manual pages is being worked on, some brave souls offered support to
write additional documentation. It will probably take some more time..
Best regards,
Lutz
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