Ralph Angenendt ra+centos@br-online.de wrote:
I don't think the OpenSSH devels really do care about that - there is no discussion whatsoever on the secureshell list or on the devel list.
No idea about our upstream, but I don't think so either. <<
Correct: all that needs to be said was said years ago, by Dr. Robert E. Coveyou, of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (now NIST):
"The generation of random numbers is to important to be left to chance".
Best,
--- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Les Bell lesbell@lesbell.com.au wrote:
"The generation of random numbers is to important to be left to chance".
Speaking of which, this seems to be a nice poor man's hardware RNG, that uses ALSA:
http://www.digital-scurf.org/software/randomsound
(Per Russell Coker's excellent blog.)
-- Daniel
Daniel de Kok wrote:
Speaking of which, this seems to be a nice poor man's hardware RNG, that uses ALSA:
For the slightly richer man:
http://warmcat.com/_wp/whirlygig-rng/
:)
Cheers,
Ralph
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