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From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
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Subject: Strange thing (/dev/random)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:03:19 -0800
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	I noticed something odd with the entropy pool in 2.4.0-test11. If a normal
user does a 'sysctl -A', the entropy pool empties. I'm not sure why, but it
sounds like this isn't a good thing from a security standpoint.

	DS

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