GnuPG for OS/2

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Oct 29 09:50:02 CET 2001


On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 00:01:22 -0800 (PST), roconnor  said:

> I wrote a Rexx Entropy Gathering Daemon
> <http://www.math.berkeley.edu/%7Eroconnor/RexxEGD/> based on the Perl EGD.
> It's not as good as a driver to gather interupt infromation, but should be
> about as good as the Perl EGD.

But what do you use as source for the entropy?  It may have changed in
recent version of OS/2 but I am not aware of any system services which
can be used.  The only way I can think to do it is by writing Device
drivers becuase this way you can get in closer touch with the kernel.

  Werner

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