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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
- random translator,
Stou Sandalski <=