On Aug 11, 4:59am, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> From: Ian Upright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ian-list> I'm primarily looking for an implementation of an entropy
> ian-list> gathering daemon for the windows platform, written in C or
> ian-list> some other compiled language, not perl.
>
> There was a small program called prngd announced here not long ago.
> It is currently Unix-oriented and creates a named socket that anyone
> can read random bytes from. IIRC, there's a feature called "named
> pipe" on Windows that works in a somewhat similar fashion?
>
> ian-list> I'm wondering if anyone has integrated OpenSSL to work with
> ian-list> the entropy gathering daemon called Yarrow.
> ian-list> http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow.html
>
> OpenSSL is designed to work with any seeding daemon through a named
> socket. Basically, the named socket is connected to and read from
> like any socket.
Umm... no. There's a specific format for requests that's used for the
EGD-reading one (which is also used for prngd). The more general
interface is the one used for /dev/random & /dev/urandom, and that
one's inputting from a device file, which (so far as I know) is only
possible for a kernel device driver, unless you're lucky enough to be
on a system with a functional portal filesystem (or Hurd translators,
which are sort-of an enhanced version of that).
-Allen
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