From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 23 11:10:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03311 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:10:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from detlev.UUCP (40-sweet.camalott.com [208.239.153.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03305 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:10:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA62127; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:09:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) To: "Allen Smith" Cc: Peter Jeremy , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #314 References: <98Nov23.115714est.40343@border.alcanet.com.au> <9811222004.ZM2852@beatrice.rutgers.edu> From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 23 Nov 1998 13:09:33 -0600 In-Reply-To: "Allen Smith"'s message of "Sun, 22 Nov 1998 20:04:20 -0500" Message-ID: <86k90mmdjm.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> (It's possible that pgp 5 may use /dev/random if it's >>>available; I haven't gotten around to downloading it yet and checking.) >> It appears it does - it definitely has the hooks. (Which would make it >> a complete circle - some of the ideas behind /dev/random come from pgp). > Ah, good. Now if I could only persuade the idiots at SGI to include > /dev/random et al... there are reasons that we're going with FreeBSD > for a firewall machine. Speaking of such things, what are some apps that use /dev/random, or at least have hooks to use a random device? Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message