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Message-ID: <20061201153706.321926f5@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 1 Dec 2006 15:37:06 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-crypto <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Pseudo-random number generator

On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:20:46 +0100
Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@...ibm.com> wrote:
> Yes, a user can just symlink urandom to prandom and will have a faster
> generator.


More usefully they can use it as an entropy source with an entropy
daemon to feed it into the standard urandom/random.
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