Bug#145498: RFP: egd -- Entropy Gathering Daemon - userspace /dev/random written in perl

[Grant Bowman <grantbow@grantbow.com>]

A clarification from Marcus.

----- Forwarded message from Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> -----
From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
To: Grant Bowman <grantbow@grantbow.com>
Cc: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: RFP: egd -- Entropy Gathering Daemon - userspace /dev/random written in perl
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 08:14:00 +0200

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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