Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:19:03 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/random Makefile src/sys/dev/random harvest.c hash.c hash.h nehemiah.c nehemiah.h probe.c randomdev.c randomdev.h randomdev_soft.c randomdev_soft.h yar Message-ID: <9455.1081606743@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:02:11 %2B0400." <4077FE63.4010602@cronyx.ru>
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In message <4077FE63.4010602@cronyx.ru>, Roman Kurakin writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>How about we recognize that different users needs different levels of >>randomness ? >> >>Couldn't we provide at three levels of random bits: >> >> 1. "Random enough for games" >> >> 2. "Random enough for money" >> >> 3. "Random enough for lives" >> >How about computations? Well, depends what kind of computations you are talking about obviously. I specifically didn't list that because I have seen so many examples of monte carlo analysis done with rand() that I could cry. People who do stochastic simulation should think about randomization not just belive in some random (pun intended) default. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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