Cryptosplit 2.0

Perry E. Metzger pmetzger at lehman.com
Tue Nov 30 10:52:41 PST 1993



Brad Huntting says:
> So if you cant predict which pages will land where in memory (which
> may be a false assumption), this is probably a good method for
> getting a random number on a unix box.

It might be a decent way to get *A* random number, but if you start
milking this source too frequently you will likely start getting more
and more correlation.

Myself, I'm still in search of a decent, inexpensive, high-quality
source for random numbers, and only hardware will REALLY do.

Perry








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