| I think there are other practical issues too. Unless the new libfetch
| fetch supports https this won't work. More to the point, I'd
| guess https needs a working /dev/random to set up the secure
| connection, but we're running fetch to set up /dev/random.
| 
| How much entropy can we get from:
| 
|       (date; dmesg ; sysctl -X; vmstat -i ) > /dev/random
| 
| Just playing it looks like you might get 4 so bits from the
| rtc and clk interupt count alone.

None.  Any data that is publically available via userland should not be
used for cryptography.

-Dan


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