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Re: [TLS] Last Call: draft-hoffman-tls-additional-random-ext (Additional Random

Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com> Tue, 27 April 2010 10:26 UTC

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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator

The link you cite above is an example of the extra hardware that most
people don't have.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random

The link you cite above isn't a truly random number generator.

		--Dean


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