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Re: Network time protocol



On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:21:56PM +0900, SL Baur wrote:

> That's not what I would have guessed.  Systems with /dev/random have a
> better source of random numbers than a timer and on systems without it
> or the equivalent, you're better off not assuming you can get really
> random numbers at all.

<leading question>

Where does the entropy pool for /dev/random come from?

</leading question>

-- Chris


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