Solaris random device

[Lars Hecking]

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 at 0:random
crw-r--r--   1 root     sys       65,   1 May 10 01:21 random at 0:urandom
$