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Subject: Re: Randomness and vi
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> Mark Murray wrote:
>
> > > <<On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:52:55 -0800, Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> said:
> > >
> > > > found out the hard way that vi needs randomness to run when I was doing
> > >
> > > vi doesn't need randomness to run.

> I suspect that in fact vi relies upon mkstemp, which IMHO by definition should
> use secure RNG.

	We have a winner. :)

Doug
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