GnuPG is secure on what platforms ?

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 08:01:07 -0400, Gordon Worley said:

> Not exactly related, but some of you may find it interesting what ent 
> has to say about random_seed:

> localhost% ent random_seed
> Entropy = 7.704649 bits per byte.

You can't apply statistical tests on the output of a hash function;
they are more or less meaningless.  random_seed is the result of a
hash operation.


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