From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: LD errors compiling source from gnupg-1.0.1.tar.gz
Date: 27 Feb 2000 12:16:42 -0800
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

> Richard Dawe wrote:
> > 
> > DJGPP does not have /dev/random, nor does it have /dev/urandom.
> 
> This could be easily emulated with File System Extensions, no?

Maybe.  /dev/random is a strong random number generator.  On Linux, it
works by gathering various random events from the hardware (keyboard
interrupt timing, mouse movement, noise from a microphone, etc) and
hashing them.  But it's a somewhat difficult proposition to
continually gather all this info unless you are the kernel.

GPG does have an Entropy Generating Daemon for systems without this
kernel functionality.  But I don't think you could use it on DOS,
since it needs to run in the background.  Windows could work.

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Nate Eldredge
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