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Subject: Re: ATTENTION: Initial state of random pool 
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 23:35:40 +0100
From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
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Mark Murray wrote:

> Right now, I believe that the hard-earned randomness may be being used for
> trivial jobs. I do believe, though, that much more entropy can be provided.

Aha!  The solution may be to allow the hard-earned randomness to be used
for trivial jobs, by using it only as a seed for a cryptographically
secure random sequence generator (e.g. RC4).

Comments?

Gary