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Re: Waiting for Randot (or: nia and maya were right and I was wrong)



On Fri, 15 Jan 2021, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 03:10:20PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 03:04:21PM +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
Can we create a random stream for all such situations instead of a file? Say
open a TCP/IP connection to some NetBSD server that spits out a X number of
random bytes by its random generator and then closes the stream?

You want this to happen on the *local* network.

Well no, on install, open a tcp connection to a TNF hosted server...

Assuming you can trust the host _and_ the path to it hasn't been
compromised...


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