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Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak
From: Garrett Wollman (wollmankhavrinen.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 10:54:14 CDT


<<On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:08:35 +0200 (CEST), Leif Neland <leifnneland.dk> said:

> If you can't reach a NTP server, you are not connected to the internet. In
> that case you don't need to worry so much about security...

Unless, of course, the reason your machine is not connected to the
Internet is in order that it be able to provide some critical security
functionality.

-GAWollman

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