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OS snobbery... (was Re: Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis Kletnieks)
Thu Feb 15 14:07:01 2001
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:01:16 -0500
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From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@VT.EDU>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2001 05:02:08 GMT."
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(Another fine example of OS snobbery on Bugtraq)...
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 05:02:08 GMT, tls@REK.TJLS.COM said:
> FreSSH distribution -- thankfully, since just
> about everyone in the world *does* have a
> /dev/random (whatever name it's called by; this
> code is in an OS-dependent source file that has
> the appropriate name for the OS in question in it)
> just about nobody does get stuck with this.
Unless you're AIX, Irix, Solaris....
In fact, unless you're anything but BSD44, linux, or svr4, by
judging by the fressh 0.8 source distribution - those are the only
3 operating systems that have sys_sys_XXX.c files.
However, BSD44, Linux, and SVR4 are *not* "just about everybody".
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Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
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