From: Allover Stripes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Native PGP-signing now possible. Date: 14 Apr 1999 19:06:03 -0400
> It doesn't seem to be in the gnumach-1.1.92 (Wow, BTW). Yes, of course. ;-) I'm planning to support Linux character devices rather than support only the random device because I believe that is much better, so the support is now under development stage, and I think the support should not be included in the stable releases yet. So, if you'd like to help me, please get gnumach-char snapshots in my server. I will rename it gnumach-1.2.9x when gnumach-1.2 is released. The reason why I named it gnumach-char was that it might be strange to call it gnumach-1.2.9x, though gnumach-1.2 was not released yet. > Do you think it's a good approach to put the random driver in the > kernel? Should it be a userland translator? If so, should it still > gather information from the lowlevel drivers? I don't know the theory of randomness very well, so I can't answer your question. However, I think kernel-level random device is useful even if a userland translator for randomness exists, because it can use the device as one of randomness sources. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ^o-o^ http://duff.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~okuji (in English) m /
