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Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> writes:
> You have to rely on something; Yarrow needs some entropy to cold-start,
> and on a freshly installed OS, this is rocking-horse shit. This is
> where BIG problems start because it is at this time that (eg) SSH keys
> are built. We make some effort to get the user to "kayboard bash", but
> experience has shown that annoyed users screw up, and annoyed engineers
> are often worse.

Look at the code, the "keyboard bash" hasn't worked since someone broke
it in 2006.

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