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Solaris 9 and later and Trusted Solaris 8 have /dev/random and /dev/urandom. Regular Solaris 8 doesn't have /dev/random and /dev/urandom by default, but one can install patch ID 112438 for the SPARC Edition and patch ID 112439 for the Intel Edition. | Solaris 9 and later and Trusted Solaris 8 have /dev/random and /dev/urandom. Regular Solaris 8 doesn't have /dev/random and /dev/urandom by default, but one can install patch ID 112438 for the SPARC Edition and patch ID 112439 for the Intel Edition. | ||
'''References''' | |||
Michael Howard and David C. LeBlanc, Writing Secure Code, Second Edition, Microsoft Press, 2002. | |||
Michael Howard's Web Log, ''Cryptographically Secure Random number on Windows without using CryptoAPI'', http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_howard/archive/2005/01/14/353379.aspx. | |||
D. Eastlake, 3rd, J. Schiller, and S. Crocker, RFC 4086 (formerly RFC 1750): Randomness Requirements for Security, June 2005. This RFC recommends the use of /dev/urandom and CryptGenRandom. | |||
Elaine Barker and John Kelsey, NIST Special Publication 800-90: Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators, June 2006. | |||
=Key Establishment Techniques= | =Key Establishment Techniques= | ||