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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:53:12 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: CygWin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: /dev/[u]random sources
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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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