On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> My understanding is that net devices are still mixing data into the pool,
> but with an entropy estimate of zero.
..which appears to be wrong.
> If they're not mixing data into the pool at all any more, then that
> seems wrong to me - we should be adding likely sources of entropy as
> well, even if we can't rely on them enough to credit them.
What we really need is an add_untrusted_randomness().
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