Martin Dalecki wrote:
>Multiple initializations help only against cryptographic attacks - but
>THEY HURT overall security of the system, becouse they "open it up".
Either I completely misunderstood what you are trying to say, or your
claim is simply not true. I've done considerable research on generating
randomness for cryptography, and I think you're a little confused about
how /dev/{,u}random work and about their cryptographic properties.
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