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Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture



On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:13:08AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Kimmo K. I. Surakka wrote:
> > I think the "safe" way of getting random data without a decent random
> > source would be to write one. This, however, would be more that just
> > a small patch.
> 
> There is existing code to generate randomness from userland, look at
> what current OpenSSH does for example.

I'm wondering if XFree86 considers it worth the trouble.

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