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[John-Mark Gurney]

Scott Long wrote this message on Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 23:06 -0600:
> 
> > On Jul 24, 2015, at 12:59 AM, Mark R V Murray <markm at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 24 Jul 2015, at 02:25, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Heck, piping in mic data to /dev/random is a good way to seed the
> >> rng on many machines.
> > 
> > Well, sure, but what if you don???t have microphone? I want lots
> > of choices, in anticipation of only a subset being usable.
> 
> I still think that for most use cases where you have a high likelyhood
> of draining /dev/random of useful bits, you???re likely already on a tight

Once you have enough useful bits in /dev/random, you can NEVER run out
of useful bits from /dev/random...

[Well, not quite NEVER, but not for a few millennia.]

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