Hi,
I got two fast answers (within minutes !!). Both say that I should look
into PRNGD which resembles EGD and is written in C and supports Tru64
right out of the box. I'd need to deliver it with KDE2, though, which
is no problem as long as it doesn't require anything special.
Thanks to: Ardizzoni Enrico IW4DZV <enrico_at_unife.it>
Steve VanDevender <stevev_at_hexadecimal.uoregon.edu>
for their replies which I'm appending below.
Tom
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From: Ardizzoni Enrico IW4DZV <enrico_at_unife.it>
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Thomas Leitner wrote:
| 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?
Hi Tom,
you can use "PRNGD - Pseudo Random Number Generator Daemon":
http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html
Links:
ftp://ftp.ca.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/INSTALL
_Bye_
Enrico 8-)
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From: Steve VanDevender <stevev_at_hexadecimal.uoregon.edu>
Thomas Leitner writes:
> 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?
I'm using Lutz Jaenicke's PRNGD (Pseudo-Random Number Generator Daemon)
which provides the same interface as EGD, but is much more robust and
vastly more efficient. It works with gpg, OpenSSH, and other software
that can use EGD. It's written in C rather than Perl, and supports
Tru64 UNIX directly. However, prngd still has to be included with your
package and installed to put its output in a place konqueror will find
it.
The other possibility is to yank in the code from OpenSSH (or other
packages like gpg) that runs UNIX commands to gather random input for
seeding the OpenSSL random number generator. This won't require
installing additional items like PRNGD, but might also be hard to get
right in a portable way.
All in all it would be nicer if Tru64 UNIX had /dev/random.
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