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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Steve Kargl
<sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> 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."

Whatever.

Have my other posts clarified sufficiently for you?