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Werner Koch (wk@isil.d.shuttle.de)
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:36:14 +0200
Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> writes:
> I'll note that the mixing function is not strong; if you know the
> state of the pool at time T, it deviates away from that slowly. This
Cryptlib uses /dev/random only to seed it's PRNG instead of collecting
the entropy from a bunch of system utilities.
/dev/random is far better than all the workarounds like EGD or
Winseed which are used to collect entropy.
-- Werner Koch at guug.de www.gnupg.org keyid 621CC013
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