From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA09197 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 10:54:55 -0600 Received: from muzak.iinet.net.au (muzak.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.237]) by urban.iinet.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA24737 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 00:55:12 +0800 Received: from guinness.neep.com.au (reggae-20-224.nv.iinet.net.au [203.59.85.224]) by muzak.iinet.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA06055 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 00:55:10 +0800 Received: (from andrew@localhost) by guinness.neep.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id AAA28235 for parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com; Tue, 30 May 2000 00:55:07 +0800 Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:55:03 +0800 From: Andrew Shugg To: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HP-UX random number generator? Message-ID: <20000530005500.A28121@neep.com.au> References: <20000529024931.B11779@flynn.zork.net> <39324625.977B5A74@storm.ca> <20000529103328.C11779@flynn.zork.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000529103328.C11779@flynn.zork.net>; from pedro@flynn.zork.net on Mon, May 29, 2000 at 10:33:28AM -0500 List-ID: Peter A. Peterson II said: > This is quite true... but for now, I'd settle on making ssh work, > since there is nothing of great value on the HP box, I'm just looking > for a way to kludge ssh into working. I know that on Solaris a /dev/urandom device is provided by the SKI packages. There may be an equivalent under the HPUX environment but I am not sure, I am not very far up the HPUX guru ladder. You might like to consider using OpenSSH if you don't have any joy with ssh. OpenSSH can be compiled[1] without a /dev/*random device by using egd[2], the Entropy Gathering Daemon. OpenSSH also requires installation of zlib and openssl though (which is just a bit more effort, but oh well). I've not used egd so can't comment on it, but it's probably worth a go. Or you could just fall back on rsh. =) Andrew. [1] http://www.openssh.com/portable.html [2] http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ -- Andrew Shugg http://www.neep.com.au/ "Just remember Basil, there's always someone worse off than yourself." "Oh, really? I'd like to meet him ... I could do with a good laugh." [ Sybil and Basil Fawlty, "Fawlty Towers" ]