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On Wed, 3 May 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote:
	[ losts stuff deleted ]
>     Also, putting a random number in each block is important if each block
>     is separately encrypted, for the same reason.
> 
>     Using /dev/random to obtain your random numbers is considered to be 
>     acceptable.

How can you tell how much entropy is in the 'pool' for /dev/random and
it's about to start being not-so-random? Pull a sample once in a while and
Chi test it? I like being able to know. - Jy@



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