[Mono-devel-list] /dev/random replacement?

[Jeremiah McElroy]

You might want to look into this: http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=KRNG11I
 
I don't know if you have the ability to install it or not, but it is the HP 'official' workaround.
 
There is also a freshmeat.net project for /dev/random on HP-UX which can be found here:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/hpux11-random/?topic_id=144%2C44
 
HTH,
 
jeremiah

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	From: mono-devel-list-admin at lists.ximian.com on behalf of Bernie Solomon 
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	In my work on HPUX I have now got to the stage where the lack of /dev/random
	is a problem because System.Web.SessionState.SessionId uses the crypto
	random number generator which relies on this device which this version of
	HPUX does not have (11.00). I'm wondering what the best way of handling this
	is. There seem to be various daemons available (egd & prngd are a couple
	I've found) but ideally I'd like something that doesn't need a daemon set up
	on a machine at all (i.e. just library based). I realize this may not
	necessarily be fully cryptographically secure but for my use something that
	works in practice is good enough for me. Or maybe this needs to be some sort
	of configure option as to how secure you want things.
	
	I'm not an expert in this so was wondering if anyone had recommendations on
	what to do. I'll do the necessary implementation if I can.
	
	Thanks
	
	Bernie Solomon
	
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