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random translator


From: Stou Sandalski
Subject: random translator
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:50:36 -0800

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




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