Re: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:01:17PM -0700, Xin Li wrote:
> > Well, 1:1 correspondence is when we fed full text to /dev/random,
> > which we don't, right? Only the first 4K gets consumed. So:
>
> That's right.
>
> > Situation 1: we have 45K of plain text, and only first 4k is fed to
> > /dev/random at about 5 bits of entropy per byte;
> >
> > Situation 2: we have 45K of plain text, compress to e.g. 25K and only
> > first 4k is fed to /dev/random at more than 7.6 bits of entropy per byte;
>
> Best situation would be if yarrow properly consumed all the data
> _and_ we fed less data with higher entropy in it ;-)
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