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From: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
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Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

> 
> On 17-Jul-00 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > NTP is the perfect way to gather entropy at bootup!
> 
>         Only if in reach of an NTP server ?
> 
If you can't reach a NTP server, you are not connected to the internet. In
that case you don't need to worry so much about security...

Leif



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