[Info-vax] New VSI Community license PAK

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-10-22, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <rmrtn2$no5$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>
>> A kernel-level random number device driver would be nice as well.
>
> Random numbers are too important for their generation to be left to 
> chance.  :-)
>

You are clearly making a joke, but that is exactly why they should
be generated within the operating system kernel, where the algorithm
can be reviewed and where the random number generator has access to
system activity.

The Linux random number generator has undergone this level of scrutiny:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random#Linux

Simon.

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