On Jan 28, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

randpool.dat is a small file containing some random bits that is needed
for crypto operations. Read on startup, written on exit. Normally it is
not a big deal if it cannot be read or written.

On Mac OS/Linux, shouldn't we be using /dev/random (or /dev/urandom) for random bits?


--Grant

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