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Subject: Re: freebsd + synfloods + ip spoofing
To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
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> 
> Warner
> 
> P.S.  /dev/random here is a entropy gatherer in the kernel for the
> purpose of generating cryptographically strong random numbers.
> -stable doesn't seem to have this, not sure about -current.  Linux
> does which is where I'm getting the nomenclature from.
 -current does have a /dev/random
>