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Oliver Xymoron writes:
> Apparently you haven't actually investigated what /dev/random is. It's
> more or less a (much improved) kernel implement of PGP's entropy pool,
> taking entropy from many more sources than PGP has access to. From the
> source, which is nicely documented (linux/drivers/char/random.c):
And you are assuming that all Majordomo installs are running on Linux 2.x
or *BSD kernels. SunOS, IRIX, HP-UX, AIX, DG-UX, and almost every other
Unix and Unixalike do not. Linux is the exception for this rather than the
rule.
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Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@prescienttech.com> / If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke,
Sysmonster, Unix Wrangler / get away immediately. Seek shelter
Prescient Technologies, Inc. / and cover head.
I speak for myself, not PTI or SWEC /
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