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On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:30:23 +0400
Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> wrote:


> I would not do it without consultations with Yarrow's creators:

OK, I didn't realise it was actually specified, I thought it an
implementation detail.

> this modification seems not to help anything, 

It possibly doesn't help with an attack against Yarrow itself, but it
means that 512 bits of entropy, rather than 256 bits, can be read-out
from /dev/random.