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From: Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak
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| Gotcha - fix coming; I need to stash some randomness at shutdown time, and
| use that to reseed the RNG at reboot time.

What about saving the state of the RNG and re-reading it on bootup?  That
will allow Yarrow to continue right where it left off. :-)

-Dan  


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