"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree that we should not have a fictitious /dev/urandom, but we > should support ssh even so. > > Open SSH is supported, in an insecure way, by either a random > translator, or the copying hack.
Ssh should provide a non-cryptographically secure mode (such as using hashes of the low time bits, for example) for use on systems without a real random bit source. If it does not use that, it is reasonable for us to use a hack to provide something similar.