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Re: lack of /dev/random on Solaris 6 and 8

From: Seshubabu Pasam <pasam_at_seshubabu.com>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 17:05:49 -0700

See http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/SUNrand

-Regards
Seshubabu Pasam

Jerry G. Chiuan wrote:
> Hi All,
> As we know, Solaris 6 and 8 don't carry /dev/random used by OpenSSL to
> generate random numbers
> my question is:
> how does curl support SSL on Solaris 6 and 8? what are the alternatives used
> by Curl?
> are they really random enough? are they secure?
>
> thanks a lot
> - Jerry
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Received on 2004-05-04