[149148] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: [Cryptography] cheap sources of entropy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Jan 21 02:39:52 2014
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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:04:59 -0800
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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