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diff --git a/hurd/translator/random.mdwn b/hurd/translator/random.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index afb76953..00000000 --- a/hurd/translator/random.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,70 +0,0 @@ -[Savannah task #5130: random translator](http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5130) - -See the attached [[mbox.bz2]] containing all the emails concerning this topic -which I was able to gather from public archives. (!) This is not up-to-date -anymore, as [[MichaelCasadevall]] is currently working on this. - -# Description - -Sources of entropy are for example disk access latencies or keystroke patterns -or behavior on networks. This suggests that for implementing a random -translator a kernel part is needed as well, to gather that entropy. That -kernel part would then export the gathered entropy via a kernel device, named -perhaps `entropy`. - -# Setup Pseudo Random Devices - -Stuck getting SSH to work? You need a pseudo random generator (PRG). - -There are several solutions to the lack of `/dev/random` and `/dev/urandom`, -but they are not yet in the default installation. - -* Marcus' work can be downloaded at - [random.tar.gz](ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/random.tar.gz). - (Identical to <http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/random-64.tar.gz>?) - * [A patch](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2002-August/010248.html) - that was probably already incorporated from August 14, 2002. - * Clemmitt Sigler [reported - success](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2002-10/msg00076.html) - October 11, 2002 and Marcus [described - some](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2002-10/msg00081.html) of - the internals. - -* [Entropy Gathering Daemon](http://egd.sourceforge.net/). - * [request for packaging](http://bugs.debian.org/145498). - -* [OSKit Entropy - Patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2003-01/msg00000.html) from - Derek Davies - Jan 2003. - * See also [this page](http://www.ddavies.net/oskit-entropy/). - * Note that this patch can (and should) be used with this [OSKit NIC - patch](ftp://flux.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/mail/html/oskit-users/msg01570.html). - -* [Sune Kirkeby's incomplete port of the Linux /dev/\{,u\}random device - driver](http://ibofobi.dk/stuff/hurd-entropy/) - * [The files](http://download.ibofobi.dk/hurd-entropy/), including a [patch - for GNU - Mach](http://download.ibofobi.dk/hurd-entropy/gnumach-entropy.diff.bz2). - -* Quick and dirty way: - - sudo cp /bin/bash /dev/random - sudo ln -s random /dev/urandom - ---- - -# Setup Tips - -Here are some tips on how to actually setup the two random devices using -Kilobugs' [random-64 server](http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/random-64.tar.gz). -His tarball is a complete Hurd server including a pre-built binary - so you -don't need GCC or magic fingers for this! :) - -After untaring the package you copy the random binary to the `/hurd` -directory. Then you setup the translators for random and urandom. - - # settrans -c /dev/random /hurd/random \ - --seed-file /var/run/random-seed --secure - # settrans -c /dev/urandom /hurd/random \ - --seed-file /var/run/urandom-seed --fast - # chmod 0644 /dev/random /dev/urandom |