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From: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net>
Cc: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

> 
> On 19-Jul-00 Peter Dufault wrote:
> > Is the resolution of thermal sensors on many new motherboards and
> > CPU high enough to get thermal randomness?
> 
>         The voltage sensors have some noise too (maybe not enough).
> 
Fan speed too.

Leif



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