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Subject: entropy reseeding is totally broken
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In very recent -current, my entropy file writted and readed sucessfully,
but I got the same fortune quote again and again right after reboot!

It means that anything writted to /dev/random not reseed it but _reset_ it
to the same default state.

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Andrey A. Chernov
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