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Re: `Random' seed.
Rick Busdiecker writes:
> I don't think that anyone has suggested otherwise. I believe that
> `clock skew' was the underlying source of randomness that Matt Blaze
> mentioned in the message where I first saw that code.
Yes, looking at Matt's code I think I believe it.
> I have no idea how reasonable it would be to use this approach in
> Netscape, however if it were available as an option to generate, say
> 300 bits, I'd personally be plenty willing to let it chew up five
> minutes while I get my morning caffeine.
If you look at it that way (the software just generates new bits every
once-in-a-while, like daily) I guess I wouldn't mind. I mean, heck,
it's not like there aren't 3 dozen other random daemons that pop up
and eat my CPU every now and then :-) It'd only really be a problem
if it were used as an "operational" source of random bits.
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