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Re: random seed generation without user interaction?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Tue Jun 6 11:28:24 2000
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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 08:30:02 -0400
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
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I've been putting a cheap sound card in every machine, not connected to
any external wires, cp'ing from it on reboot. Seems to generate a nice
chunk of randomness, but I've never measured it.
Jeff.Hodges@stanford.edu wrote:
>
> 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?
>
WSimpson@UMich.edu
Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
