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    SubjectRe: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?
    On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
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    > Ok, whats going on here is an issue with how the smolt RPM installs the
    > UUID and how Fedora's Live CD does an install. It's a complete false alarm
    > on the kernel side, sorry for the confusion.

    BTW, You may be better off using "uuidgen -t" to generate the UUID in
    the smolt RPM, since that will use 12 bits of randomness from
    /dev/random, plus the MAC, address and timestamp. So even if there is
    zero randomness in /dev/random, and the time is January 1, 1970, at
    least the MAC will contribute some uniqueness to the UUID.

    - Ted


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