Solaris random device

Lars Hecking lhecking at nmrc.ucc.ie
Thu May 11 16:05:40 CEST 2000


Werner Koch writes:
> On Thu, 11 May 2000, Andreas Pommer wrote:
> 
> > That seems to be the answer. One possible solution would be to skip the
> > select() if the fact is known that the device does not block.
> 
> We can't do that because we should be somewhat sure about how much
> entropy we got.  

 As the author has invited comments and suggestions, I have forwarded
 Andreas P's reply.



More information about the Gnupg-devel mailing list