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To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] random.c bugfix 
In-Reply-To: Message from Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> 
   of "Sun, 28 Oct 2001 22:37:54 PDT." <20011028223754.G1311@lynx.no> 
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:15:33 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> said:

[...]

> (*) I don't know enough about the hash functions to know how to add a
>     few odd bytes into the store in a useful and safe way.  We don't
>     really want to discard them either - think if a user-space random
>     daemon on an otherwise entropy-free system only writes one byte at
>     a time...

I'm no expert either, but padding with anything (zeroes?) to get the right
length should be safe, no?
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