Re: Unidentified subject!
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:05:54AM -0400, ddavies@ddavies.net wrote:
> The Linux 2.2.12 entropy driver has been added to oskit (it's on the
> trunk of savannah CVS and the oskit maintainer said he'd include the
> changes in the next release from Utah flux group, but no word on when
> that will be).
>
> It now integrates with GNUMach 2.0 (aka OSKit/Mach) on the trunk of
> savannah CVS without the nasty link bugs that have plagued it since
> January.
Great news!
> So now I'm in the process of makeing the entropy available from Mach
> and writing a Hurd server to interface with that.
>
> For your purposes though, none of this will matter until we can
> replace GNU/Mach 1.x with GNU/Mach 2.y.
I already wrote an appropriate server, which only will require a simple
addition to poll the Mach device. It uses an entropy pool ripped from
gnupg.
Thanks,
Marcus
--
`Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org marcus@gnu.org
Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/
Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/
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