>> Dumb question time: Do we want to introduce a dependency on /dev/random? >> Looks like most people have it now. > >Go for it. It's 2012, and enough other things need a random number supply for >crypto that you can probably safely consider a system that still doesn't have >/dev/random as being somewhere between archaic and downright crippled. > >What still doesn't have /dev/random, and what does software do to compensate?
I'm only mentioning this because we got recent bug reports about things not working right because of a buggy snprintf() on an ancient HPUX box. Does the ancient HPUX box in question have /dev/random? Good question; dunno. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
