Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 15:32:47 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@nike.efn.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.atinc.com>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get to the hardware? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.91.951001153150.241C-100000@nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <24250.812580966@time.cdrom.com>
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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 gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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