[Info-vax] entropy engine (Re: New VSI Community license PAK)

[Craig A. Berry]

On 10/22/20 12:58 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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

Page 7 of the current roadmap lists something called an "entropy engine"
for OpenVMS v9.2.  Dunno anything else about it but I hope they pay up
on on the licensing fees to the Daleks because those are folks you don't
want coming after you:

<https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Entropy_engine>