Re: Native PGP-signing now possible.

[Allover Stripes <allover@hedgehog.globalserve.net>]

> > The obvious solution is to port the Linux /dev/random to the Hurd.
> 
>   I've already done this. All we need to do is debug my code. ;-)

It doesn't seem to be in the gnumach-1.1.92 (Wow, BTW).  Examining it,
there doesn't seem to be a file corresponding to
drivers/char/random.c, only the file linux/src/include/linux/random.h.
Moreover, the function add_blkdev_randomness does not appear to be
implemented (I just ran a grep; maybe I missed it) although it seems
to be called from a few places.  (Conditioned out).  Of course, I
really don't understand the internal workings of gnumach.

Do you think it's a good approach to put the random driver in the
kernel?  Should it be a userland translator?  If so, should it still
gather information from the lowlevel drivers?

Thanks,
Andrew Archibald
aarchiba@csclub.uwaterloo.ca