On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 10:35:33AM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> The Linux/Unix port of OpenSSH will be switching over to a Unix port of
> Schneier and Kelsey's Yarrow PRNG in the not too distant future. It might
> make a good PRNG for OpenSSL too.
The OpenSSL PRNG fulfills its purpose perfectly well, now that it can
be safely used in multithreaded applications and we make sure it's not
used unseeded. The problem is getting entropy on systems without
/dev/random, and EGD seems like a good choice for that.
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