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Date:      Sun, 01 Oct 1995 13:56:06 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.atinc.com>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to get to the hardware? 
Message-ID:  <24250.812580966@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Oct 1995 13:50:21 EDT." <Pine.3.89.9510011341.B15632-0100000@kryten.atinc.com> 

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> 	the interrupt from a network card, provided one is available and 
> connected to an active segment, may be a very good choice of inter-interrupt 
> time period randomness.

You guys should read the announcement text for Netscape 1.22.  They
describe some of the things they're using for randomizing factors
now..  They use the current # of processes and a few other interesting
things to increase their "entropy".

					Jordan



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