Re: apg (was: Intent to Rewrite: pwgen)
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 12:56:50 -0400, Theodore Tso <tytso@valinux.com>
wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:21:02PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Do you think it would be a good idea to ask upstream to refrain from
>> using CAST?
>
>You can certainly ask. There's no reason to use CAST; it wouldn't be
>hard to build one based on SHA, or just simply read from /dev/urandom.
I can understand that upstream does not want to use /dev/urandom. The
author has made some efforts to be portable, and there are unices
without urandom device.
Greetings
Marc
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