On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Mark Baker wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G John Lapeyre) writes: > > > Recipes generators and the linux system 'random', which is the longer > > Do you mean the library call random? No, that isn't brilliant, though if you > try other unixes you'll probably find them worse. Apparently /dev/random is > very good. I heard the /dev/random files were seeded with real random data from things like network IO interrupt calls and so forth. I've never seen any distribution tests on the data though. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
