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Date:      Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:14:52 +0100
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
To:        Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dev/random 
Message-ID:  <200404131914.i3DJErIn001170@grimreaper.grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:49:14 EDT." <428207C0-8D7B-11D8-B697-003065ABFD92@mac.com> 

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Charles Swiger writes:
> Why not set $entropy_dir in rc.conf and kickstart /dev/random using 
> much higher quality entropy available when the machine was shutdown 
> last?

Think diskless workstations :-).

M
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Mark Murray
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