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 ?) * [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. * [egd](http://egd.sourceforge.net/) - Entropy Gathering Daemon (here's the [RFP](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/index.html). * 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). ---- ## 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 -- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 21 Jan 2003