Rian Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There needs to be an entropy device in Mach before a random device can >> be added, AFAIK. > > well for ultimate random numbers an entropy device would be needed. but > you can emulate one (to an okay degree) with egd (entropy gathering > daemon). actually i found an implementation that uses egd: > http://ibofobi.dk/stuff/hurd-entropy. I think a user-space solution > would be more preferable in the long-run anyway. The L4 kernel has > user-space interrupts, so an even better user-space entropy gatherer > could be written when the Hurd is running under L4, someday. > -rian
It even seems that there is a patch for GNU Mach to add a entropy device... -- Marco _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
