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Scott Long writes:
> If you are dd'ing from /dev/random, then you are depleting the entropy
> pool.  Anything else that tries to get random numbers is going to block
> in strange ways.  Trying just dd'ing from /dev/zero and see if that
> makes a difference.

For current, there is no such thing as "depleting the entropy pool". At worst,
this will make the output generator work hard, consuming CPU cycles.

M
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