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Re: [Cryptography] What's a Plausible Attack On Random Number
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat Nov 2 12:23:48 2013
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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 12:55:52 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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On 2013-11-01 04:48, David Mercer wrote:
> "First boot" really refers to "first post-install boot", and is one of
> the lowest entropy points in a systems life-cycle.
The problem seems to be that some software early in the boot process may
want randomness.
Bad software! Don't do that!
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