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Date:      Thu, 6 Sep 2012 11:39:15 -0700
From:      Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>
To:        Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d
Message-ID:  <20120906183915.GB89120@x96.org>
In-Reply-To: <86txvbovlb.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <201208221843.q7MIhLU4077951@svn.freebsd.org> <5043DBAF.40506@FreeBSD.org> <20120903005708.7082f230@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120906171824.GC14757@dragon.NUXI.org> <86392vqc86.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20120906181922.GA89120@x96.org> <86txvbovlb.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 08:27:28PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> What can possibly be weaker than discarding most of the entropy provided
> by the administrator? 

Almost nothing.

> David had a genuine concern about performance
> when stuffing large amounts of data into /dev/random.

Sure, security and performance don't go together well very often.



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