Do not use GnuPG under Mac OS RNG

[Gordon Worley]

At 8:12 PM +0200 6/27/01, Werner Koch wrote:
>  || On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:38:42 -0400
>  || Gordon Worley <redbird@mac.com> wrote:
>
>  gw> Okay, first, let's make sure we're talking about the same
>  gw> thing. rndunix is what I'm getting if I call rnd(), correct?  I
>
>You mean rand(3)?  rndunix.c has noithing to to with this, it is the
>part of GnuPG which collect entropy on Unix like OSes.

Yes, I see, a big misunderstanding.  Okay, I've figured out what you 
mean now and am looking into it.  Guess that's what I get for not 
knowing GnuPG inside out.  ;-)

Okay, just to check again, gnupg passes all of it's self tests 
(running make check).  I know that a URL to a paper about this topic 
was posted (I have the paper and am reading it), but is there 
anything else I need to do to make sure that rndunix.c is returning 
really random numbers?  What's the best way to get some random 
numbers from it (I'm thinking I'll just print them out and at least 
make sure that there are no visible patterns)?
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