From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 22 17:05:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05116 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 17:05:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from beatrice.rutgers.edu (beatrice.rutgers.edu [165.230.209.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05110 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 17:05:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu) Received: (from easmith@localhost) by beatrice.rutgers.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id UAA02854; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 20:04:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Allen Smith" Message-Id: <9811222004.ZM2852@beatrice.rutgers.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 20:04:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: Peter Jeremy "Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #314" (Nov 22, 7:59pm) References: <98Nov23.115714est.40343@border.alcanet.com.au> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.3 08feb96 MediaMail) To: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #314 Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Nov 22, 7:59pm, Peter Jeremy (possibly) wrote: > Allen Smith wrote: > >Well... no, actually, mine didn't. It uses pgp's random source, which > >is composed of key timings whenever you're entering text into it. > > My apologies, you are correct. I didn't look closely enough and was > reading `md5' instead of `pgp' at a critical point. No problem; I've made similar goofs myself. What it uses MD5 for is in processing the file that pgp produces. > > (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. -Allen -- Allen Smith easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message