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Re: /dev/[u]random sources
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: CygWin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:53:12 +0200
- Subject: Re: /dev/[u]random sources
- References: <3CE64C14.2090705@lapo.it>
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 02:41:56PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> One othe rlittle thing, why limit the seeding to 512 bytes?
> To avoid "spamming" a function that is "slow"?
> Wouldn't this delay anyhow go in the caller's thread?
A discussion on the OpenSSH developers mailing list (back in 2000
or 2001) convinced me that it doesn't make sense to seed more than
a block size. Unfortunately I don't remember the exact reasoning.
Corinna
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