Re: [patch 0/2] Add Fortuna PRNG to pgcrypto

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Marko Kreen <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] Add Fortuna PRNG to pgcrypto
Date: 2005-07-08 20:12:59
Message-ID: 20050708201259.GA25567@wolff.to
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On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 23:03:49 +0300,
Marko Kreen <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee> wrote:
>
> Well, those OS'es that already have urandom/random, don't need
> it. And those that don't - I really don't feel responsibility
> to write one...

But fortuna is essentially a high quality /dev/urandom. It doesn't make seem to
much sense to implement it on top on /dev/urandom.

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