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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: /dev/urandom
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:17:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180711161748.56d770ea@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87601nylro.fsf@netris.org>

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Hi Mark,

those are all good points.

In this specific case the randomness is necessary for NAND wear levelling,
so getting rid of it isn't good anyhow.

I'll investigate whether there is a way to defer invocation of
the randomizer so that the user can invoke it in the installed package.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-11 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-10 16:22 /dev/urandom Danny Milosavljevic
2018-07-10 18:28 ` /dev/urandom Leo Famulari
2018-07-10 18:58   ` /dev/urandom Danny Milosavljevic
2018-07-10 22:40     ` /dev/urandom Leo Famulari
2018-07-10 18:43 ` /dev/urandom Mark H Weaver
2018-07-11 14:17   ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2018-07-11 15:07     ` /dev/urandom Vincent Legoll
2018-07-11 15:50       ` /dev/urandom Danny Milosavljevic
2018-07-11 16:34         ` /dev/urandom Vincent Legoll
2018-07-10 22:18 ` /dev/urandom Ludovic Courtès

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