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generating random sequence number

jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Feb 28 17:29:28 1991

I plan on using a key and an encryption-system random key generator to get a
random key, but that key in and of itself isn't suitable for a random seed,
since some bit pairs may not be linearly independent.

So, the obvious answer is to use the key to encrypt something.  Any
suggestions on what to encrypt?  a constant?  some function of the time of
day? hostaddress?

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