svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Wed Sep 12 09:26:20 UTC 2012
Xin Li <delphij at delphij.net> writes:
> Situation 1: we have 45K of plain text, and only first 4k is fed to
> /dev/random at about 5 bits of entropy per byte;
>
> Situation 2: we have 45K of plain text, compress to e.g. 25K and only
> first 4k is fed to /dev/random at more than 7.6 bits of entropy per byte;
>
> Therefore I think Situation 2 is better than situation 1.
Yes, that was why I suggested using compression.
DES
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