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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:13:48 +0100
From:      Ben Laurie <benl@freebsd.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>, Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Subject:   Re: Proposed fix; stage 1 (Was: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d)
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Finally, I still think that making changes to the entropy-feeding
> methods in initrandom or random are premature until we have a chance to
> review Arthur's work on what's actually happening with the buffer. Until
> we know where the problems are, we're only guessing as to what the fixes
> should be.

I agree that buffering should be addressed first.



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