The perils of security tools

[Ben Laurie]

Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Sat, 24 May 2008 20:29:51 +0100
> Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
> 
>> Of course, we have now persuaded even the most stubborn OS that 
>> randomness matters, and most of them make it available, so perhaps
>> this concern is moot.
>>
>> Though I would be interested to know how well they do it! I did have 
>> some input into the design for FreeBSD's, so I know it isn't
>> completely awful, but how do other OSes stack up?
>>
> I believe that all open source Unix-like systems have /dev/random
> and /dev/urandom; Solaris does as well.

I meant: how good are the PRNGs underneath them?

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