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From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@nike.efn.org>
Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get to the hardware? 
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On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > 	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

actually... they should use the # of processes... on many machines like 
my that are only used by one person... the # or processes rarely 
flucuates... and is very predictable... TTYL..

John-Mark

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