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randbyte
2001 Oct 02
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New feature: remote entropy gatherer port
...f you have an
specialized random gatherer in your local environment.
Imagine a server running egd or prngd feeding from the usual PRNG
shell commands. Then, add to that server some random traffic from
your local network or from other random gatherers like random.org
(e.g. http://random.org/cgi-bin/randbyte?nbytes=128&format=f ),
etc. Thus, all random requesters (OpenSSH, OpenSSL, GnuPG, etc.)
could use the same gatherer and requesters won't need to run all
those PRNG shell commands all the time (I've noticed 10 sec.
delays in some hosts that lack a random device).
I've attached the...