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From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: [patch 0/2] Add Fortuna PRNG to pgcrypto
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Msg-id 20050708191047.GA19472@wolff.to
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In response to [patch 0/2] Add Fortuna PRNG to pgcrypto  (Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>)
Responses Re: [patch 0/2] Add Fortuna PRNG to pgcrypto  (Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>)
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On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 20:54:40 +0300,
  Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee> wrote:
>
> The idea is to initially seed Fortuna with randomness from
> system and later feed SHA1 of user data into it too.  Just
> to keep it from degenerating into pure PRNG.

How is fortuna getting entropy?
Wouldn't this be better placed in the OS as the source of /dev/urandom rather
than as part of Postgres?

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