Good RNG (was: Mac OS RNG)

[Huels, Ralf SCORE]

Werner Koch wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> It is very important to do such analysis before you use GnuPG with
> real keys. =20

Can you give me a pointer towards good literature on how to test for=20
randomness sufficient for cryptography?

I'll gladly check out cygwin if I get a little background on what tests
to conduct.

Tsch=FC=DF,
Ralf

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