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Re: Netscape "random" number seed generator code available
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Phil Karlton) writes:
> Details: While navigating through menus or typing into various form
> fields, the Navigator uses the unpredictability of details of the
> user actions to increase the entropy of the RNG state.
Note that clicking in the main window or on URLs, and timing of
network activity cause the state of the RNG to be updated.
--Jeff
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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
[email protected] - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.