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To: "June Carey" <carey_june@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ssh key-gen 
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Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:40:25 -0600
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
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OpenBSD seeds its RNG during the boot-up process with entropy saved
from the previous boot (/var/db/host.random).  One of the things
the install process does is to create this file from /dev/urandom
so when the system boots for the first time it does indeed have
entropy...

 - todd

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