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Quote: generate 128-bit salt from arc4random seeded from the kernel's entropy pool of current time and timing data

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random number generation

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In OpenBSD the 128-bit salt is generated from … kernel's entropy pool. The kernel collects timing measurements … program requests random data from the kernel, an … and lower of the MD5 output and returned. …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: generate random data from the MD5 hash of an entry pool of timing measurements

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