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Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 14:41:56 +0200
From: Lapo Luchini <lapo AT lapo DOT it>
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To: Mailing List: CygWin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: /dev/[u]random sources
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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?

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