Alternate egd socket

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri Feb 11 16:02:44 CET 2000


On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Dave Dykstra wrote:

> SSH has a function random_acquire_light_environmental_noise() which it
> uses in addition to using the seed file before selecting a session key.

GnuPG has it's fast_random_poll() which is used now and then to add
some random stuff into the pool.  This does not cost so much.


   Werner



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