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Re: True random numbers
In message <[email protected]>,
[email protected] wrote:
>
> 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.
> My program simply send some data to port 7 (echo port) of a network on an i
> nternal list. Then timing it, randomly picks a different network to send to.
Interesting idea. Trends may be externally visible, You would probably
want to normalize it, and you would find that there was quite a few
deterministic elements of network load -> delay.
Oh, did I mention clock granularity?
In short you really aren't going to get 'random numbers' from such a
scheme, but that's not to say you couldn't have fun playing with it,
you might even find some use for the ways of calculating immediate
network load around a node. Especially with regard to interception of
packets and allowing for time discrepancies whilst doing so.
Altogether off topic, but could maybe be developed into an idea with,
maybe a 30% change of being Perrygrammed. Keep working.
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Bounce me the code, could be interesting
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