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On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 08:27:28PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> What can possibly be weaker than discarding most of the entropy provided
> by the administrator? 

Almost nothing.

> David had a genuine concern about performance
> when stuffing large amounts of data into /dev/random.

Sure, security and performance don't go together well very often.