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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net>
Cc: "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@iu.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Cryptographic dump(8)
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: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@

    I suppose you could, but since /dev/random is system-wide it should
    be very random.


					Matthew Dillon 
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