[39597] in Cypherpunks
Re: My Day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin])
Wed Sep 20 12:01:30 1995
From: "Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <khijol!erc@uunet.uu.net>
To: sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:11:38 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: jsw@neon.netscape.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199509201218.MAA00433@orchard.medford.ma.us> from "Bill Sommerfeld" at Sep 20, 95 08:18:00 am
Reply-To: ecarp@netcom.com
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> Getting real entropy from mouse movements under X may be tricky,
> because the X server goes out of its way to compress mouse movement
> reporting and to buffer events sent to the client ("X is an exercise
> in avoiding system calls"). You'll probably get less entropy than you
> might think.
Also add that many people seem to tend to swirl the mouse in fast circles,
where there isn't *any* latency between mouse movements, and you get even
less entropy. I suspect that Colin Plumb's code, while a nice try, would
be a bit less useful that might have been otherwise suspected.
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Q. What's the trouble with writing an MS-DOS program to emulate Clinton?
A. Figuring out what to do with the other 639K of memory.
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