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On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:12:27AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> Unless I'm reading the code wrong, the prandom_reseed_late call can
> happen after userspace is running.

But there is also the prandom_reseed() call, which happens early.

    	     	      		       	     	   	   - Ted
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