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Date:      Fri, 09 Apr 2004 19:36:24 +0100
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d initrandom 
Message-ID:  <200404091836.i39IaO0w060580@grimreaper.grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:45:19 PDT." <20040409104438.U48723@root.org> 

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Nate Lawson writes:
> >   Take into account hardware-supplied entropy. If the entropy source
> >   is hardware, the Yarrow initialisations don't need to be done.
> >
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.3       +41 -34    src/etc/rc.d/initrandom
> 
> None of this was discussed on arch@ and it is a security regression.
> Please back out.

Could you please explain to me what the security regressions are?

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