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Date:   Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:58:35 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] random: rng-seed source is utf-8
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 12:10 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
>
> commit 428826f5358c922dc378830a1717b682c0823160
> ("fdt: add support for rng-seed") makes the assumption that the data
> in rng-seed is binary, when it is typically constructed of utf-8

Typically? Why is that?

> characters which has a bitness of roughly 6 to give appropriate
> credit due for the entropy.