Re: qmail starttls patch does not seed the random number generator

[Jos Backus]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:41:43PM -0400, Jack Lloyd wrote:
> Not to mention the fact that /dev/random on Solaris is a pipe, and thus could
> (maybe) return less.

Have a look at ANDIrand:

    http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/

solaris% ls -l /dev/?random  
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other          34 Jul  9 10:40 /dev/urandom -> 
../devices/pseudo/random@0:urandom
solaris% ls -Ll /dev/?random 
crw-r--r--   1 root     sys      153,   1 Jul  9 10:40 /dev/urandom
taiko:/depot/src% 


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