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On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 01:33:46PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> Remember, the assertion that David and Arthur are making is that
> re-using the files in /var/db/entropy is harmful.

Damnit Doug is your desktop's memory faulty and you're loosing RAM
values?  Is your MUA (or MTA) randomly dropping characters in my replies
to you?  Or are you freaking blind or just cannot understand the English
language???

It is not just David and Arthur, it is also the designer of the PRNG we
use.  It is also other cryptographic-minded folks such as I found in a
few threads of Cryptography-Digest.
 
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