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Re: True random numbers

To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: True random numbers
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 13:09:11 -0500
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Feb 1996 12:02:19 PST." <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Sender: [email protected]

[email protected] writes:
> I was trying to think of a way to come up with true random numbers...
> And knowing a bit of UNIX socket TCP/IP programming I made a small little
> program that generates random numbers by measuring the mili-second timing ies
> a TCP packet to bounce back, from another network. 

A bad source of randomness, both because the opponent can also conduct
the same measurement and because the opponent can alter your
measurement...

.pm

References:
- True random numbers
  - From: [email protected]

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