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