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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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