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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:50:44 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: (2nd iteration) New /dev/(random|null|zero) - review, please 
Message-ID:  <45667.961433444@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:45:46 EDT." <20000619124546.A2268@spirit.jaded.net> 

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In message <20000619124546.A2268@spirit.jaded.net>, Dan Moschuk writes:

>We will still harvest entropy from various interrupts and other system
>sources.

We really need to add the random harverster to the PPS-API so that
people can just hook up their geiger counter to their parallel port...

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
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