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To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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Subject: Re: Creating a /dev/random 
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 14:15:25 -0700
From: Dave Hayes <dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> writes:
>I am building devices, /dev/random and /dev/urandom that when read give
>random noise generated in and by the kernel. 

How is this noise generated? Is it really random, by statistical
tests?

Is there any chance of having an option to take random bits from an
existing sound card if there is one there?
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Dave Hayes -- Institutional NETworks - Section 394 -- JPL/NASA - Pasadena CA
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              To the ignorant, a pearl seems a mere stone.