On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Mark Murray wrote:

> > What we really need is this:
> > 
> >     fetch -o http://entropy.freebsd.org/ > /dev/random
> 
> For this to work, you'll need to encrypt the traffic.
> 
> fetch -o https://entropy.freebsd.org/ > /dev/random
>              ^
> 
> If the world knows what they are, your bits aren't random enough.

Plus you need to authenticate (and obviously trust) your entropy server
and the data stream to make sure they're not actually someone else feeding
you zeros.

Kris

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