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Re: random seed generation without user interaction?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald E. Eastlake 3rd)
Mon Jun 5 23:05:08 2000
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To: cryptography@c2.net
Cc: Jeff.Hodges@stanford.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2000 19:08:53 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 22:43:53 -0400
From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3@torque.pothole.com>
I'm not sure how widely used they are but there are some ideas
in RFC 1750.
Donald
From: Jeff.Hodges@stanford.edu
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To: cryptography@c2.net
Cc: Jeff.Hodges@stanford.edu
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 19:08:53 -0700
>So I'm curious about what all methods do folks currently use (on NT and unix)
>to generate a random seed in the case where user interaction (e.g. the ol'
>mouse pointer waving or keyboard tapping approaches) isn't a viable option?
>
>thanks,
>
>JeffH
