on solaris7/sparc this device doesn't exists i can use EGD but he very big (perl script!) - in memory it take about 4mb! apache use the same! why ssh1.27 doesn't requre /dev/urandom on solaris? what alternatives exists?
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Max Shaposhnikov wrote:> on solaris7/sparc this device doesn't exists > > i can use EGD but he very big (perl script!) - in memory it take about > 4mb! apache use the same!Yeah, it is a bit piggy. On my Usparc running 2.6, memory utilization is about 2.8M, but another 1.4M is paged/swapped out.> why ssh1.27 doesn't requre /dev/urandom on solaris?I don't know. I have no experience with the ssh1.27. I think I used like 1.20 or 1.22 several years ago, but I wasn't doing any development.> what alternatives exists?None, that I'm aware of. I don't do a whole lot with crypto since I'm in the USA. (Legal stuff, and all that, besides I'm *not* a mathematician...) :-) I suppose that someone could port the /dev/urandom stuff to Solaris. It would definitely be less memory intensive, I suspect. Regards, Ben
You can get hold of /dev/random as part of SUNWski. If you hunt through sunsolve's public patches you'll find that package, it's a bit of a dodgey way to get it, but it works fine :) Carl> From owner-openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org Fri Jan 14 01:05:05 2000 > Delivered-To: openssh-unix-dev-list at mindrot.org > Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:03:59 +0300 > From: Max Shaposhnikov <shapa at maxnet.ru> > X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org > Subject: /dev/urandom > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > on solaris7/sparc this device doesn't exists > > i can use EGD but he very big (perl script!) - in memory it take about > 4mb! apache use the same! > > why ssh1.27 doesn't requre /dev/urandom on solaris? > > what alternatives exists? > > > >
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Max Shaposhnikov wrote:> on solaris7/sparc this device doesn't exists > > i can use EGD but he very big (perl script!) - in memory it take about > 4mb! apache use the same! > > why ssh1.27 doesn't requre /dev/urandom on solaris? > > what alternatives exists? >You can install the SUNWski package. It comes with the sun webserver on the SEAS cd. It's still not a kernel random like linux though. It has a stand alone daemon like the perl package. I think it's a little lighter though. PKGINST: SUNWski NAME: SKI 1.0 Software (User Package) CATEGORY: application ARCH: sparc VERSION: 1.0,REV=1998.09.24.00.00 BASEDIR: / VENDOR: Sun Microsystems DESC: SKI Software (User Package) PSTAMP: mcm-ultra1>Fri Dec 4 14:23:39 PST 1998 INSTDATE: Jan 07 2000 16:32 VSTOCK: 258-6422-05 HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider STATUS: completely installed FILES: 36 installed pathnames 10 shared pathnames 4 linked files 11 directories 16 executables 3173 blocks used (approx) Brian Brian Harvell harvell at aol.net http://ToolBoy.com/ echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|dc