Re: DRBG seeding

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 03:19:17AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> 1. during initialization of a DRBG instance, seed from get_random_bytes to 
> have a DRBG state that is seeded and usable.

I think we either need to use real entropy and block, or mark
the DRBG unusable until such a time that it has been seeded
with real entropy.

Cheers,
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