> > > My assumption is that the other Unixes weren't looking at interrupt > timing > > to begin with, i.e. they've always been as starved for entropy as Linux > > eventually became. > > Well, you know what they say about assumptions. >
Smart people will come around and help correct them? :) > > > That being said, does VXWorks even *have* an OS provided > > strong random number generator? > > Don't know, don't care. > Why not? It carries your data. > > > Windows has CryptGenRandom, which AFAIK doesn't block, and survives > > everything but VM suspend/restore. > > FreeBSD also doesn't block. > May I ask what FreeBSD's entropy sources are?
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