On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 02:41:56PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: > One othe rlittle thing, why limit the seeding to 512 bytes? > To avoid "spamming" a function that is "slow"? > Wouldn't this delay anyhow go in the caller's thread?
A discussion on the OpenSSH developers mailing list (back in 2000 or 2001) convinced me that it doesn't make sense to seed more than a block size. Unfortunately I don't remember the exact reasoning. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
