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Re: random seed generation without user interaction?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David A. Wagner)
Tue Jun 6 14:34:31 2000
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: daw@cs.berkeley.edu (David A. Wagner)
Date: 6 Jun 2000 11:18:34 -0700
Message-ID: <8hjf9q$vhr$1@blowfish.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu>
In article <200006060208.TAA29744@breakaway.Stanford.EDU>,
<cryptography@c2.net> 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?
See http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/rnd/index.html for a huge list
of online ideas, documents, and code.
