reality check

[Peter Gutmann]

>>When you've got source available, I can try in on an IBM AIX system, as
>>well as compiling an MSDOS version.
>We need the random device, so it will not work on systems without such
>a thing.  But you can try to configure it on AIX if you like.
 
You don't really need a random device, there are other ways to get randomness 
from the system such as the one I use in cryptlib, 
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/, feel free to use that if you 
want.  Works under Unix, BeOS, Win16, Win'95, and NT, and (to some extent) 
OS/2.  I'll be presenting a paper on this at the Usenix security symposium in 
January.
 
Peter.