Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:57:40 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> To: easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #314 Message-ID: <98Nov23.115714est.40343@border.alcanet.com.au>
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Allen Smith <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> 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. > (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). Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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