Subject: Re: /dev/random, gpg and NetBSD 1.5
To: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/14/2000 09:22:11
> > 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.

Well, the one system I have is a 3500 in a ba123 cabinet, and it
has qe network and ra disks, and those appear not to be
instrumented.

- H=E5vard