On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 04:23:05PM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: > I've recently started hacking on Hurd again, and I'm curious why a > random translator isn't included by default in the Hurd. Looking at > the wiki, there are at least two different translators; we should > have one of these included out of the box because without /dev/(u) > random, its impossible to have SSH and a bunch of other programs.
the GNU maintainers (well, Marcus mostly I think) have made it clear that a good solution to entropy needs to be found for the Hurd, no half-baked low-security solution will be acceptable (you could argue that the current state is much worse, but this is intentional I think - people should *immediately realize* that there is no cryptographically secure /dev/random provided by the Hurd and act accordingly. Having a /dev/random device would make them think everything is fine) On the other hand, I think the Debian GNU/Hurd would benefit from a halfway secure solution and it would be a good test-bed for inclusion upstream. So if you have something working, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list would be very interested. Michael _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
