FW: RES: Secure connections

[Eric J. Gustafson]

 Here's a fun one:
 http://lavarand.sgi.com/
 
 This one's a little more practical:
 
 http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: phil@Stimpy.netroedge.com [mailto:phil@Stimpy.netroedge.com]
 > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 3:00 PM
 > To: Leiradella, Andre V Matos Da Cunha; gnupg-users@gnupg.org
 > Subject: Re: RES: Secure connections
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Almost related: For machines which do a lot of encrypting based on
 > random numbers (VPN routers, SSL web servers, etc.), are there
 > hardware products which can produce lots of high-quality random
 > numbers?  The kernel /dev/random works well, but sometimes it can run
 > out of data, and the server will lag. 
 > 
 > I'm interested in what you people think.
 > 
 > 
 > Phil
 > 
 > On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 02:35:37PM -0300, Leiradella, Andre V 
 > Matos Da Cunha wrote:
 > > Sorry, I didn't made myself clear.
 > > 
 > > I know I can generate key pairs and encrypt/decrypt files using 
 > the command
 > > line. What I really need is the C functions witch do it, so I 
 > can link them
 > > into my programs.
 > > 
 > > About the random number generation, don't get me wrong. I'm 
 using Linux
 > > 2.2.12 and I know /dev/random is ok, but so much is talked 
 about random
 > > numbers when it comes to key generation that I thought I needed 
 > something
 > > more than it.
 > 
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 > Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR
 >    phil@netroedge.com -- http://www.netroedge.com/~phil
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