On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:22:24PM -0700, Xin Li wrote:
> I'm not quite convinced that this works by the way -- is 65 bytes
> enough to "kickstart" /dev/random?
What way our yarrow works today, we start up assuming we're seeding.
And writes to /dev/random do not count toward our entropy estimation.
So its hard to answer what is sufficient to "kick start /dev/random".
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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