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DISCUSSION David Schwartz 1 participant 1 message Nov 21, 2000

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I noticed something odd with the entropy pool in 2.4.0-test11. If a normal
user does a 'sysctl -A', the entropy pool empties. I'm not sure why, but it sounds like this isn't a good thing from a security standpoint.

DS

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