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Charles 9
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Re: Bring back the mouse.

"Do we remember that time when we needed to giggle the mouse in a random pattern to generate entropy to then be used on encryption?"

Quite vividly since TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt STILL use the technique to help stir up their entropy pools.

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