Mac OS RNG

[Gordon Worley]

At 12:42 PM +0200 6/22/01, 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.

rndunix doesn't yield anything reasonably random (it's so unrandom 
that just the casual observer can see the patterns), which is why egd 
is being used.  egd passes it's self test on OS X and I've had no 
trouble with it.  FYI, egd is automatically installed with the OS X 
binary release I do, but I'll add it to the HOWTO on building.
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