You might be interested in the EGD (Entrophy Gathering Daemon) project. It's
a perl based daemon that sits in the backgroud and does what it's name
suggests. Programs can communicate with it trhough unix or tcp sockets...
Have a look at openssl's RAND_egd(3) manpage and EGD's homepage
http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/
I had it working on solaris without problems.
aegis wrote:
> Thanks Scott,
>
> Unfortunately my problem is more fundamental.. I'm trying to get the
> random generator set up.
>
> I installed openssl-0.9.6 and everything *seemed* to go right, but
> there's no sign of a /dev/random and I have no idea how to configure one
> from scratch. That's how bare my knowledge base is.. <he says ducking his
> head in shame).
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