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Code review comment for lp:~vanvugt/mir/run-without-entropy

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Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths) wrote :

Causing problems does seem unlikely, especially in the short term.

OTOH It is not "nice" behaviour of a test to manipulate the state of the machine running the test (not just the test process) like this. All it needs is some unrelated code running on the system to do something that relies on really having entropy for this to cause a hard-to-reproduce, intermittent problem.

For an unlikely but possible scenario: suppose you run this test just when you need to generate a strong cryptographic key.

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