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authorAndy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>2004-07-26 11:32:35 -0400
committerDave Mitchell <davem@fdisolutions.com>2004-07-26 22:08:32 +0000
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Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.4.58.0407261530350.19559@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu> Add more info on /dev/random under solaris p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23164
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@@ -587,7 +587,10 @@ software products, for example the Sun WebServer, which is part of
the Solaris Server Intranet Extension, or the Sun Directory Services,
part of Solaris for ISPs) or download the ANDIrand package from
L<http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/>. If you use SUNWski, make a
-symbolic link /dev/urandom pointing to /dev/random.
+symbolic link /dev/urandom pointing to /dev/random. For more details,
+see Document ID27606 entitled "Differing /dev/random support requirements
+within Solaris[TM] Operating Environments", available at
+http://support.sunsoft.com.
It may be possible to use the Entropy Gathering Daemon (written in
Perl!), available from L<http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/>.