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From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: [patch 0/2] Add Fortuna PRNG to pgcrypto
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Msg-id 20050708201259.GA25567@wolff.to
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In response to 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 23:03:49 +0300,
  Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee> wrote:
>
> Well, those OS'es that already have urandom/random, don't need
> it.  And those that don't - I really don't feel responsibility
> to write one...

But fortuna is essentially a high quality /dev/urandom. It doesn't make seem to
much sense to implement it on top on /dev/urandom.

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