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Date:      Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:43:29 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/random Makefile src/sys/dev/random harvest.c hash.c hash.h nehemiah.c nehemiah.h probe.c randomdev.c randomdev.h randomdev_soft.c randomdev_soft.h yar 
Message-ID:  <9704.1081608209@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:32:56 BST." <6.0.1.1.1.20040410122521.03dbaea0@imap.sfu.ca> 

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In message <6.0.1.1.1.20040410122521.03dbaea0@imap.sfu.ca>, Colin Percival writ
es:
>At 12:11 10/04/2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>Couldn't we provide at three levels of random bits:
>>
>>        1. "Random enough for games"
>>
>>        2. "Random enough for money"
>>
>>        3. "Random enough for lives"
>
>Don't forget:
>4. "Random enough for oil"

Wouldn't that also require us to add:

5. "Random enough for USA democratic elections"

:-)

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