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Date:      Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:37:29 -0400
From:      Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak
Message-ID:  <20000718103729.A1221@spirit.jaded.net>
In-Reply-To: <200007161826.UAA03911@grimreaper.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 08:26:44PM %2B0200
References:  <20000716105943.A60072@freebsd.org> <200007161826.UAA03911@grimreaper.grondar.za>

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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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