Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> writes:

>    Ssh should provide a non-cryptographically secure mode (such as
>    using hashes of the low time bits, for example) for use on systems
>    without a real random bit source.
> 
> What Open SSH should do and not do, should be discussed on the Open
> SSH mailing list, not here.

Ah, but you nicely clipped the rest of my message in your haste.

We certainly can make whatever changes we want to ssh to suit our use
of the program, and the rest of my message discussed workarounds
should we not want to do that.