Hi I just 'installed' the debian gnu hurd and realized that there is no /dev/random yet. After some googling i noticed that there are two random translators out there one written by Marcus Brinkmann and one by someone else... I couldn't find either, links were dead.
Anyone know what the status of the random translator is? Maybe i haven't given it enough thought but it shouln't be too difficult at all to write a random translator using the /dev/1 example as a starting point, some prng (internet is packed with prng implementations) and some enthropy gathering from something (sci.crypt has terabytes of threads on enthropy gathering)... i realize that the enthropy gathering is the hardest part, but _any_ /dev/random would be better then nothing... right? well except for the false-sense of security issue but once their is something, it can be improoved... If this hasn't been done yet, i'll definetly be down to work on it. Regards, Stou _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
