[ntp:hackers] RANDFILE requirement for non-crypto setup?
Danny Mayer
mayer at ntp.isc.org
Wed Oct 17 17:07:26 UTC 2007
Heiko Gerstung wrote:
>> Under Unix, other entropy sources are /dev/random and/or /dev/urandom.
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>> I don't know what would be used under Windows.
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> I guess there is something similiar which is used by OpenSSL ...
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No there isn't. There is an API call that you can make to obtain a
source of entropy, but it's not the same as having a "device" like
/dev/urandom
In BIND9 I had to make a call to CryptGenRandom() (see
lib\isc\win32\entropy.c) to get a source of random values.
It's not trivial.
Danny
> Best Regards,
> Heiko
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>> H
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