Something like /dev/random for Tru64 ?

From: Thomas Leitner <tom_at_radar.tu-graz.ac.at>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 08:05:40 +0100 (MET)

Hi,

As you probably know, I'm working on KDE2 for Tru64 Unix. For the next
release I want to get SSL connections (https://) going in konqueror. For
that, konqueror uses the OpenSSL library which in turn needs some sort of
random generator. On many systems there's a random device called
/dev/random or /dev/urandom. This is not available under Tru64. There's
the option to run something which is called "EGD" or entropy gathering
daemon. However running EGD is a pain because it's written in Perl and I
don't want to rely on perl being installed on a particular system.

So my question: Is there any way to get a /dev/random or a similar device
under Tru64 Unix for these purposes?

Any idea anyone?

Thanks // Tom

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