Solaris random device

[Enzo Michelangeli]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Pommer" <apommer at cosy.sbg.ac.at>
To: <gnupg-devel at gnupg.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 16:59
Subject: Re: Solaris random device

[...]
> Currently it is more similar to the linux /dev/urandom , less to
/dev/random.
> At every call to the device some entropy is added (from a high resolution
> timer, and sometimes process id) and subsequently mangled by some hash
> algorithms (IIRC SHA?). Still todo: More entropy sources have to be added.
> The solaris kstat interface provides access to a large number of kernel
> counters which can be used for that purpose. However, the "good" ones
> have to be determined.

Why? Just toss everything into the pool: the total entropy cannot be reduced
by adding low-entropy data. The more, the merrier.

Cheers --

Enzo