[39714] in Cypherpunks
Re: Silly NetScape RND tricks...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Thu Sep 21 01:20:40 1995
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 21:17:36 +0800
To: Deranged Mutant <rrothenb@ic.sunysb.edu>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
At 12:05 PM 9/20/95 -0400, Deranged Mutant wrote:
>
>I've only been skimming the NetScape-related posts lately, but I've yet
>to see anyone mention using a keyboard-timing sampler as a source for
>some random bits
Under windows, you get a lot more entropy from mouse timing and position
than keyboard hits.
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