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SubjectRe: /dev/random in 2.4.6
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Robert Love  wrote:
>I put together a patch that addresses this, it allows the user to
>configure whether or not network devices contribute to the entropy pool.

Be careful. Probably the right thing to do is to have network
devices contribute to the entropy pool but not to the entropy
count. If you implement this policy, and use /dev/urandom, you
essentially get the best of both worlds, as far as I can see.
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