[I wrote] > > And indeed it does when I tried it on SF's Solaris 8 box, which has > > OpenSSL installed and /dev/random. [Martin replied] > This has caused Moshe's curiosity, and mine, as Solaris 8, > out-of-the-box, does not offer a /dev/random. I found two options: > There is a third-party patch: > > http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/ > > which apparently works for all Solaris versions out there. > > There is also a Sun patch, 105710-01, which supposedly uses a > user-space demon (just as EGD), see > > http://devrandom.net/lists/archives/2000/11/OpenSSL-Users/0244.html > > As explained, this is part of the SUNWski package. > > Are you using one of these methods, or is there another option for > getting a 'true' /dev/random? Sorry, I must've confused myself. I was logged in on several different SF CF hosts, and now I can't find a /dev/random on its Solaris host, so I presume that it was never there and that I saw it on one of the other hosts there. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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