Re: RFP: egd -- Entropy Gathering Daemon - userspace /dev/random written in perl
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:14:43PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote:
> This is needed by the Hurd port to replace the kernel based /dev/random
Actually, we will have a kernel based random device in oskit, it is critical
to get good random. And a translator for /dev/random that can take
randomness from various sources, including egd, so it's still useful.
Just to clear up the "replace". Thanks for packaging this.
Marcus
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