Silly NetScape RND tricks...

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Wed Sep 20 22:19:11 PDT 1995


At 12:05 PM 9/20/95 -0400, Deranged Mutant wrote:
>
>I've only been skimming the NetScape-related posts lately, but I've yet
>to see anyone mention using a keyboard-timing sampler as a source for
>some random bits

Under windows, you get a lot more entropy from mouse timing and position
than keyboard hits.

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