For those of you who read my prior forward: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Timer randomness Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:36:55 +0800 From: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com> To: Speculators <dc-stuff@dc-stuff.org> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Sandy Harris<sandyinchina@gmail.com> wrote:

I have written a demon for Linux that gathers entropy from timer jitter and pushes it into random(4). There is working code and a PDF rationale document.

Comment and criticism solicited.

It is at: ftp://ftp.cs.sjtu.edu.cn:990/sandy/maxwell/

Do not use any version earlier than today's. I just found and fixed and simple but nasty bug. Dumb, much? To combine two 16-bit items into one 32-bit word, I used: x = (a<<16)& b ; because of the AND, that always gives zero. Of course it has to be an OR.