Solaris random device
Werner Koch
wk@gnupg.org
Thu, 11 May 2000 10:41:04 +0200
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Lars Hecking wrote:
> alternative to egd and found Andreas Maier's random device for Solaris
> (http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/). It seems to work quite nicely with
> openssl/openssh. I can generate keys, make connections, no problem.
IIRC, gpg checks that it is a character device - maybe the Solaris
/dev/random is implemented as another type of device.
(Patches are welcome)
Werner
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