Re: ssh, /dev/urandom

To: "Neal H. Walfield" <neal@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu>, tb@becket.net, kilobug@freesurf.fr, sergipop@mx3.redestb.es, debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: ssh, /dev/urandom
From: Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:06:47 -0800
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:10:25PM -0500, Neal H. Walfield wrote:

> There is a fourth alternative: leave everything the way it is.  If you
> need some quality entropy copy it from e.g. a GNU/Linux system.

This is what the buildd machine does, btw.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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- Re: ssh, /dev/urandom
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- Re: ssh, /dev/urandom
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- Re: ssh, /dev/urandom
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- Re: ssh, /dev/urandom
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- Re: ssh, /dev/urandom
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- Re: ssh, /dev/urandom
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- Re: ssh, /dev/urandom
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- Re: ssh, /dev/urandom
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