Alfred a écrit : > I find it a little odd that you need to have /dev/urandom for > openssh to work, I thought openssh was ported to plenty of systems > that don't have and never had any /dev/u?random.
> Open SSH does collect its own random data (from ps, and whatever else) > + from /dev/random and /dev/urandom. Now, why does it _have_ to use > /dev/urandom? Ask the OpenSSH people. :) /dev/urandom is _not_ cryptographically secure random data. It's fast, cheap random data. Nothing more. And the random translator is not so bad for that. Don't think /dev/random and /dev/urandom are the same, they are not. -- Gael Le Mignot "Kilobug" - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://kilobug.free.fr GSM : 06.71.47.18.22 (in France) ICQ UIN : 7299959 Fingerprint : 1F2C 9804 7505 79DF 95E6 7323 B66B F67B 7103 C5DA Member of HurdFr: http://hurdfr.org - The GNU Hurd: http://hurd.gnu.org
