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Re: Solaris /dev/random

To: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Solaris /dev/random
From: Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:09:05 +0200
Cc: heimdal-discuss@sics.se
In-Reply-To: <97694520-C683-11D8-8C38-000A95CA746C@jpl.nasa.gov> (Henry B.Hotz's message of "Fri, 25 Jun 2004 01:42:29 -0700")
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"Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov> writes:

> Just for giggles I tried removing the symlinks for /dev/random and
> /dev/urandom on a Solaris 8 machine with Heimdal 0.6.1 installed.
>
> kadmin -l ank -r randomtest  still works!
>
> Did I blow the configure or is there another source of randomness
> that's used?

If you linked with openssl, its openssl that provides randomness, so its up
to openssl.

Love

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