Re: [Macgpg-devl] gpg and 10.1

[Laurie B. <la...@ma...>]

(I am at work - please forgive the lack of PGP signature)

> i went ahead and built gpg using /dev/random as my entropy source rather
> than the somewhat cumbersome EGD and wanted to share my experiences. in
> general gpg seems a bit snappier but quite a few factors could be
> weighing in on this. good and fast entropy, just what every crypto app
> likes...
>

I was going to test the "randomness" of egd this weekend but if 10.1 has
/dev/random included is this now considered OBE?  Or should I go ahead and check
it out just to make sure that the keys created using egd are good?  (I am
leaning toward the second option)

> while i am not sure if macgpg still needs to ship with EGD
support > { 10.1 is a free update after all }, i didn't see any response to
> someone creating a system startup to launch EGD. i can create one if
> this is still desired but wasn't sure if it is now necessary.

This has been completed and is part of the CVS repository for macGPG.

Laurie
la...@ma...