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Date:      Sat, 23 Sep 2000 22:26:06 +0200 (IST)
From:      Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>
To:        Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   [url] /dev/random for Solaris
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009232224510.13159-100000@jamus.xpert.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000923162217.A27118@ns1.arch.bellsouth.net>

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On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Christian Kuhtz wrote:

> 
> Yeah, please send me the URL.  Thanks..

http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/

Enjoy!

> On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 10:17:36PM +0200, Roman Shterenzon wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > Having said that and taking my security officer hat off and putting my 
> > > > manager hat on.  Most organisations that use SSH are using it 
> > > > illegally.  With recent licensing changes and the fact that OpenSSH 
> > > > doesn't install all that cleanly on non-BSD platforms, e.g. no 
> > > > /dev/random, compile errors, and my customers report that OpenSSH 
> > > > sometimes hangs on Solaris 2.6 systems (probably related to the entropy 
> > > > gathering daemon that substitutes /dev/random on non-BSD systems), the 
> > > > quick and dirty solutions are:
> > > 
> > > Or possibly related to Solaris 2.6 being increasingly ancient and buggy...
> > There's a port of Linux' /dev/random for Solaris I use myself on a 2.6
> > system. It works for me.
> > I can send an url if anyone is interested.
> > 
> > --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
> > [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ]
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> -- 
> Christian Kuhtz                                     Architecture, BellSouth.net
> <ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm                       Atlanta, GA
>                                                     "Speaking for myself only."
> 

--Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
[ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ]



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