Solaris random device

Lars Hecking lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie
Thu, 11 May 2000 10:47:43 +0100


Werner Koch writes:

> 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.
$ cd /devices/pseudo $ ll r* crw-r--r-- 1 root sys 65, 0 May 10 01:21 random@0:random crw-r--r-- 1 root sys 65, 1 May 10 01:21 random@0:urandom $