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Subject: Re: drivers/char/random.c needs a (new) maintainer
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I am willing to maintain random.c and have intentions to have a
formally verified RNG. I've mentioned this to Ted before.

But I think Ted's reluctance to not accept the recent patches sent to
this list is mostly justified, and I have no desire to see us rush
into replacing random.c with something suboptimal or FIPSy.