We should go with Marcus'.Seems easier to maintain and it's C. Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hello, > >/dev/u?random translators are required for e.g. proper ssh and opengpg. >ATM hurd depends on random-egd, which poses problem since it depends on >a module which is provided by perl, which does not have the "required" >priority, and since perl depends on hurd too, we get a dependency loop >which leeds to immediat configuration issues. > >We've asked perl maintainers whether they could move the modules to >perl-base to avoid the issue, but that's of course not an easy thing to >ask. > >There are couple other solutions on > >https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/random.html > >and notably Marcus' random translator, which does already work, and >avoids the perl dependency completely since it's pure C. It would also >avoid a separate daemon, which looks like a good thing to me. > >The advantage of egd is that it already has some rules to gather entropy >from e.g. vmstat, w, df, etc. But that could easily be added to Marcus' >random translator later. > >What do people think about it? I've attached a tested migration patch. > >Samuel
