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Am Mon, 16 May 2022 14:53:43 -0400
schrieb "Frank Sapone (emoaddict15 AT gmail DOT com) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]"
<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>:

> On 5/16/2022 2:18 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de)
> [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> >    DJGPP specific changes.
> >    =======================
> >
> >    - The library requires an entropy source to seed the hash
> > function. This can either be a driver or a random data file.  On
> > plain DOS one such driver, NOISE.SYS, can be obtained from:
> >        http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html
> >      as:
> >        http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/noise063a2.zip
> >      Please read the instructions carefully.  This driver works on
> > DOS and may be on some versions of Windows but it does not work for
> > all versions of Windows.  For XP it does not work and I have found
> > no replacement.  Alternatively a random data file can be used.
> >      It will be found by the library at run-time by evaluating the
> >      RANDFILE environment variable.
> 
> Hi Juan,
> 
> Thanks for the port.  I may have some use for this under DOS.
> However, is the noise driver absolutely required to use this lib? Is
> there some reason it can't just use the regular rand() functions?
> The website shows "under construction" when the link is followed btw.
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank
> 


Hello Frank,

the only reason why I have done it this way, was because it was the
easiest way to do it for me.  I need the noise source anyway for
other ports like openSSL and lynx so I have opted to do it here the
same way.  I have no objections in changing this the next time.  Of
course, with the possibility to read "random" data from a file or even
worse by using rand() it will no longer be really random at all but
that is ok with me.

Concerning the noise063a2.zip file, I fear that it has gone for ever.
At least I have not found it any where.  May be some one will find it
some where.  This was my fault, I have forgotten about this because I
have installed it on my MSDOS box all the time.
For people still interested in it, they can get it by downloading the
binary archive of the latetest lynx port:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/l290d10b.zip
In the djgpp directory is a noise063a2 directory containing the original
zip file as retrived by me from the URL given together with a diffs file
with small changes I have done to the original sources.

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero

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