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Date:      Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:48:46 +0400
From:      =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Cc:        markm@freebsd.org
Subject:   entropy reseeding is totally broken
Message-ID:  <20001020084845.A19580@nagual.pp.ru>

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In very recent -current, my entropy file writted and readed sucessfully,
but I got the same fortune quote again and again right after reboot!

It means that anything writted to /dev/random not reseed it but _reset_ it
to the same default state.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/


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