17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
I was trying to think of a way to come up with true random numbers... And knowing a bit of UNIX socket TCP/IP programming I made a small little program that generates random numbers by measuring the mili-second timing ies a TCP packet to bounce back, from another network. My program simply send some data to port 7 (echo port) of a network on an internal list. Then timing it, randomly picks a different network to send to. I was wondering if this would be helpful to anyone for generating random key or whatever. If you want the source code please post a request or e-mail me. If you think for some reason that using this method is a bad idea, I would like to know. maruishi@netco.com