On 17 August 2013 18:17, James A. Donald <jam...@echeque.com> wrote: > On 2013-08-17 10:12 PM, Ben Laurie wrote: > > > What "external" crypto can you not fix? Windows? Then don't use Windows. > You can fix any crypto in Linux or FreeBSD. > > > No you cannot. > > > > So what? BSD's definition is superior. Linux should fix their RNG. Or > these people who you think should implement their own should. Or they could > just switch to BSD. > > > That it does not, implicitly admits that you, Ben Laurie, cannot fix linux. >
If I chose to run Linux, I could fix the version I ran. In fact, I choose not to run it, so I don't need to. > > We want that all implementations of /dev/random and /dev/urandom behave > the same, and that they behave correctly on all machines. We don't have > that. > > Hence the need for each implementer to reinvent the wheel. > > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography > >
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