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Re: [dsfjdssdfsd] Any plans for drafts or discussions on here?

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Tue, 21 January 2014 01:28 UTC

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On Jan 20, 2014, at 5:53 PM, Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been a bit snowed under just recently and this week but I have
> accumulated some changes and suggestions on the randomness requirement
> sod security draft and do plan to do a revision soon.

It would be good to see those revisions. It still feels very wrong for us to be suggesting to application developers that they should be doing their own randomness; they should be asking their OS unless they are experts, and those experts don't need an RFC.

--Paul Hoffman

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