[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes:

> The argument is really simple. Programs that use /dev/urandom
> generally expect to get numbers that are not only uniform, but numbers
> which are actually *useful* for *cryptographic* purposes. Creating a
> /dev/urandom that does something different is breaking that informal
> interface.

Sure, and we break informal interfaces all the time in the Hurd, as
temporary measure.  


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