Doug Barton wrote:
> I can think of one significant benefit... I had noticed that my perl
> script to pick random windowmaker themes (which uses rand()) seemed to be
> picking the same themes over and over again. Now I know why. :) I had to
> create a "last seen" list to artificially increase the "randomness." Oh
> wait, TWO benefits... xscreensaver is having the same problem.

Use /dev/random.  You have to get some benefit back from it
making all your interrupt handlers just that much slower so
it could "harvest entropy" ``for'' you...

-- Terry

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