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Re: regarding the changes to kernel entropy gathering
>> Nope, not entirely. But they have to be seeded once. If they have
>> storage which survives reboots, and entropy is saved and restored on
>> reboot, they will be ~fine.
> BTW, to me reusing the same entropy on every reboot seems less
> secure.
Hence the "saved and" part of the above. (I still think it's
misguided, but I don't expect NetBSD to agree. It's been a long time
since NetBSD and I saw eye to eye on...well, on many points.)
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