Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>
Cc: Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - 12:47 pm

> No matter what you consider as being better, changing a 12 years old and 

Fixing it to be more efficient in its use of entropy and also fixing the
fact its not actually a good random number source would be worth looking
at however.
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