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Re: getrandom and getentropy
joerg%bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) writes:
>Please think what that statement means. Consider for fun emulating a 20
>year old computer with a deterministic high precision model keeping all
>storage in memory. There is no source of entropy in such a system and no
>way for the emulation to tell.
Sadly everything is an emulated 20 year old computer nowadays.
On the other side it can provide a virtiornd device to an emulation
of a 25 year old OS which feels perfectly safe.
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Michael van Elst
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