From: Lance Cottrell <loki@obscura.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 95 12:28:10 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: SSH random numbers
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I have finaly been goaded into using SSH. I seems like a
great tool, but I have one major worry. When I install
SSH, it generates the host key right away. When I run
ssh-keygen, it generates my user key right away.
Where is it getting the random numbers. Before I dive
into the source I was wondering if anyone else had
looked into this?

	-Lance 

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