On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:25:40AM -0500, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: > > If your RNG were properly written, it shouldn't matter if the data you're > pumping into /dev/random passed muster or not. If you're tracking entropy > count, then that's a different story of course.
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