Solaris random device

[Werner Koch]

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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