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Re: ps -laxww for randmoness?

   From: [email protected] (Darren Reed)
   Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 2:30:49 EST

   Has anyone tried using the microsecond counter from unix as a random
   source ?  Its obviously *not* going to be good if you want a continuous
   stream of random numbers, but if you need them just 'every now and then',
   what about it ?

This should be in an FAQ:  Unixes have different levels of granularity
in the microsecond counter; some systems may only have a 10 ms (that's
10000 microsecond) resolution to their clock.  So you can't necessarily
depend on a getting lot of bits of randomness from this method.

						- Ted