krb5_abortx()

Love Hörnquist Åstrand lha at kth.se
Fri Jun 15 15:56:45 GMT 2007


14 jun 2007 kl. 05.26 skrev Stefan (metze) Metzmacher:

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> Hi Love, hi Andrew,
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> I just noticed we panic on some older platforms
> (HP-UX and Solaris) because seed_something() in
> krb5_generate_random_block() fails, it would be cool
> if this could be fixed...

What should I use for a random source on those platforms without /dev/ 
*random to generate cryptographic keys ?

I can use the old method from libdes that fell out when I  
restructured the random code, but its questionable if that is really  
secure, it "works" though.

Love




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