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Re: Netscape "random" number seed generator code available
Jeff Weinstein wrote:
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| More on the RNG stuff. On Unix systems we look for ~/.pgp/randseed.bin,
| and feed it through the RNG hash. On Unix and PC systems we feed the
| environment through the hash, so that would be a good place for a
| concerned user to put some random stuff of their own.
On a SunOS (or any BSD) box ps -e will get you environment variables.
ps -eaxuw
USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 53 0.0 0.0 68 0 ? IW Sep 19 0:02 portmap HOME=/
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/etc:/usr/ucb
root 68 0.0 0.0 16 0 ? I Sep 19 0:00 (biod)
root 58 0.0 0.0 40 0 ? IW Sep 19 0:00 keyserv HOME=/
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/etc:/usr/ucb
Adam
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