Re: /dev/random needs an upgrade

[Fabio Olive Leite <fabio_(_dot_)_olive_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com>]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:16:08PM -0300, Fabio Olive Leite wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:07:29PM +0000, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > We need donations to refill /dev/random.
> 
> I just ran the following here:
> $ sudo nc -v -l 17 </dev/urandom
> 
> So you can quickly connect to olive.homeunix.org:17 and share some of

Someone actually connected, and then I got worried that I was
providing random bits without a proper license, so the person would
not be able to use it freely.

This is specially important given all the recent discussions about
licenses, so this version now running provides random bits with a free
license (forgive the long line):

$ sed -n \
  '/\/\*/,$ {s/.*Copyright.*/ * Copyright (c) 2005 Fabio Olive Leite <fabio_(_dot_)_olive_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com>/;p;}' \
  /usr/share/misc/license.template /dev/prandom | sudo nc -v -l 17

I hope you enjoy the free randomness.

fabio.olive

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