Alan Mead wrote:
My version of Linux includes a /dev/random. Is there any way to use
this to get better random sequences. When I cat this device, it
looks like it runs out of data pretty quickly, but I bet it would
make a series of fairly random seeds...
/dev/random is very random, it's gets it's
--- Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> /dev/random is very random, it's gets it's data from an "entropie
> pool"
> which is filled using the random times when hardware interrupts are
>
> triggered. Because this pool has a limited size and only a few
> hardware
> interrupts per second
On 7 dec 2003, at 19:25, Alan Mead wrote:
Is the FPC RandSeed 16 of 32 bits?
3 seeds of 32 bit each.
Jonas
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