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Phil Karlton karlton at ghoti.mcom.com
Wed Sep 20 23:06:30 PDT 1995


James A. Donald <jamesd at echeque.com> writes:
    Whenever you need a random number, take a one way checksum, 
    for example MD5, of the most recently altered part of that 
    buffer.  Use that as your random number. 

How is this any better than feeding the data into the MD5
hash as I go? This is not a rhetorical question.

PK
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