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    SubjectRe: [PATCH][RFC] Allow net devices to contribute to /dev/random
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    daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) writes:

    > Incrementing the entropy counter based on externally observable
    > values is dangerous.

    How do you want to collect any entropy with such a requirement in
    place? Computers tend to send out a lot of information on the air.

    BTW, I still think that the entropy estimate for mouse movements is
    much too high. And the compression function used probably doesn't
    have the intended property.

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