Mac OS RNG

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Fri Jun 22 12:46:01 2001


Hi,

I guess that rndunix is used under Mac OS.  Has anyone checked that
this yields reasonable random?  Same goes for cygwin, where I am
pretty sure that it won't yield and unpredicatable random.

It is very important to do such analysis before you use GnuPG with
real keys.  

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