[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: "random" number seeds vs. Netscape
As a hardware type, I'd prefer a diode noise generator over a
radioactivity detector. I'd hate for the Fort to be tempted to fudge the
latter's output by flooding my house from a black helicopter...
But lacking same....
Can you take the time between two effectively async events, and use the
low order bits of same?
For example, time between a netverk pack arriving and the next tick of
the TOD clock? And/or the system's disk IO or such?
Or: Choose a site at random. Ping it. Use low order bits of that time
with something above.
I'm sure most such schemes are not usable. But all it takes is one...
--
A host is a host from coast to [email protected]
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433