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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>,
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Subject: Re: /dev/random
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:03:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes:
> > Well, only one person seems confused, but OP seems to remain adament
> > in being terse in his questions.  Yes, it seems OP has conflated PRNG
> > and entropy, but again he seems to not want to explain his point of
> > view.
> 
> Maybe your attitude scared him off?
> 

What attitude?  Look at my first post.  I asked
Ben to explain *why* he thought  it was a mistake.
His 3 sentence response can be summarized as "I
think it is a mistake, because that's what I 
think."

-- 
Steve