Re: dev random and urandom

2001-10-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 00:21:46 -0500 (EST), Simon Law said: > From my meagre knowledge of randomness, the best way to test if > things are good random generators is to query them until you get > repeats. Of course, best may not be most efficient, or most practical. Most implementations apply

Re: dev random and urandom

2001-10-28 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, James Morrison wrote: > So far I have located two different (u)random translators. > The one at http://mel.interspace.dk/~sune/hurd/entropy.html > and the one from marcus at > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/random.tar.gz > These translators seem to gather entropy

dev random and urandom

2001-10-28 Thread James Morrison
So far I have located two different (u)random translators. The one at http://mel.interspace.dk/~sune/hurd/entropy.html and the one from marcus at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/random.tar.gz These translators seem to gather entropy in different ways. I'm looking for a way to test the