[147755] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: [Cryptography] [RNG] on RNGs, VM state, rollback, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Sat Oct 19 19:25:04 2013
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 17:22:55 -0400
From: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@mit.edu>
To: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>
In-Reply-To: <1382128394.16207.38.camel@heisenberg.scientia.net>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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