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> On 25 Jul 2015, at 07:26, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:
>=20
> Once you have enough useful bits in /dev/random, you can NEVER run out
> of useful bits from /dev/random...
>=20
> [Well, not quite NEVER, but not for a few millennia.]


So is your position effectively anti-harvesting, or at least to turn
off all harvesting after a certain time and never turn it on again?

If so, we are pretty far apart philosophically.

DJB=E2=80=99s position is interesting, but I am far from persuaded by =
it.

M
--=20
Mark R V Murray