Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:01:24 -0400 From: "Matthew Zahorik" <maz@albany.net> To: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: /dev/[u]random on Alphas? Message-ID: <000f01bfeb48$e1b4d300$1401eed8@mahatma>
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/dev/urandom and /dev/random don't work on Alpha boxes under FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE alpha/alpha/mem.c doesn't have the case 3 and case 4 in mmrw() that the i386 code does. Is this a known problem/limitation, and is there a workaround? Right now my SSL web servers are using fixed files as the random number seed, rather than /dev/urandom. Not a great source of entropy. - Matt -- Matthew Zahorik Director of Systems and Networking - BiznessOnline.com matt@thebiz.net President of AlbanyNet Inc. - a BiznessOnline subsidiary maz@albany.net Voice: (518) 292-1001 Fax: (518) 626-0793 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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