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Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 20:49:27 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make cryptoapi non-optional?
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On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:14:18 -0500
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 07:07:27PM -0700, Robert Love wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 07:33, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > What if you kept crypto API optional, made random.c a config option, and
> > make that depend on the crypto API.
 ...
> Eek, let's not go there.

I definitely agree, removing the integrity of random.c is not
an option.  Even things inside the kernel itself rely upon
get_random_bytes() for anti-DoS measures.