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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: Syscons flag to turn off random_harvest in scmouse?
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On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 01:20:39AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:

> See above. SSH needs good randomness. it is silly to try to break
> that.

To be fair, if the random module depends that badly on getting
entropy from the mouse it isn't much good for many of our users
who may not even have a mouse, keyboard or console. (Even when
using X, personally I use the mouse as little as possible. On some
of our servers the console is rarely used).

I think the yarrow stuff is probably somewhat more roubust than
requiring the mouse - as long as there is some source of entropy.
What other sources does the random device currently use?

	David.


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