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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:02:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007301159370.8844-100000@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200007300924.LAA07632@grimreaper.grondar.za>

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On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Mark Murray wrote:

> > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="yarrow_blocking.patch"
> 
> Brian:
> 
> I want to take a different approach to this one.
> 
> Do not commit anything to the /dev/random device, please, without running
> it by me.

I was not planning on it.  You really should take a look at the bugfixes,
though; reading buffer sizes of >8 bytes but not-8-byte-multiple should
do it.  There's also the ioctl handler which you need stubs for and then
checking for open devices when you attempt to unload the module.

> M
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