On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:27:09PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Does this burn through entropy faster than other methods?
Probably, although since $RANDOM accesses /dev/urandom instead of
/dev/random , your available entropy remains undefined in any case. As
for the numerical distribution of your formula, I have no opinion.
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