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I'm a bit late here (catching up on mail after travel), but I think
the rough consensus already reflects how I feel about it: we should
not disconnect the PRNG.  We should treat any hardware RNGs just
as we do other sources of entropy, process and mix it in our PRNG.

Cheers,
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Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org