[39727] in Cypherpunks
Re: (none)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Karlton)
Thu Sep 21 02:09:00 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: karlton@ghoti.mcom.com (Phil Karlton)
Date: 21 Sep 1995 06:05:40 GMT
James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com> writes:
Whenever you need a random number, take a one way checksum,
for example MD5, of the most recently altered part of that
buffer. Use that as your random number.
How is this any better than feeding the data into the MD5
hash as I go? This is not a rhetorical question.
PK
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