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From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu>
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(Moving to -arch)

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 08:31:11AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:24:45PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> 
> > Can't we just crypt the data with a strong cipher (or, preferably, two or
> > three strong ciphers) and a key aquired by using random data from Yarrow
> > before writing it out?  That would not expose state, assuming we trust the
> 
> How would you know the key when you want to read it back in after the
> next reboot?

You don't know the key.   This is *entropy* - you don't need to recover it
exactly :-)

Eivind.


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