"Nelson B. Bolyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> If you're a programmer intimately familiar with the Macintosh's new OS/X
> operating system, here is an opportunity for you to contribute some
> essential code to Mozilla's crypto libraries, NSS.
>
> NSS's Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) needs to be well seeded with
> truly random data ("entropy") from the system on which it runs. To that
end,
> NSS and NSPR have code that obtains random data, often just a few bits at
a
> time, from platform-dependent sources.
Since MacOS X is based on BSD, doesn't it have access to /dev/random? Or is
that Linux-only?
