Subject: Re: /dev/random, gpg and NetBSD 1.5
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/14/2000 10:43:01
> 
> However, it appears that none of the device drivers on the vax
> have been instrumented to inject entropy into the randomness
> pool, at least I find no bits on the NetBSD-1.5_BETA2 vax system
> I have access to, so all the entropy you get from /dev/random
> will be pseudo-random bits.  (Someone should probably fix that...)
> 
Hopefully the MI drivers the VAX port uses (if_le, ncr53??, ...)
have support for rnd, and those are the drivers most common VAXen uses.

-- Ragge