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[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <CAG5KPzxd16k12adjsbtF5S7XTYk61rkv903nUc0ub=c0bHBKCg at mail.gmail.com>
, Ben Laurie writes:

>>> > FreeBSD random(4) currently only supports one hardware RNG - [...]

I belive this is wrong:  hifn7751.c also feeds Yarrow/random(4).

That said, purely on principle I'm with Ben here:  All sources of
entropy should be fed to Yarrow by default.

I don't mind there being separate devices so you can get your bits
directly from a hardware device if you want to.

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