Re: Patch: new random pseudodevice

[Michael Richardson <mcr%sandelman.ca@localhost>]

(do we need so many lists?)

I've read Thor's answer to Alan, that started:
>
>You didn't misunderstand.  The people who designed the "entropy pool"
>misunderstood.  In what sense are bits really ever "taken out"?  But,
>back then, the whole idea was so new that being very conservative

and I +1 the explanation and justification.

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