Netscape "random" number seed generator code available

Jeff Weinstein jsw at neon.netscape.com
Sun Sep 24 23:43:25 PDT 1995


In article <4454nu$da8 at tera.mcom.com>, karlton at neon.netscape.com (Phil Karlton) writes:
> 	Details: While navigating through menus or typing into various form 
> 	fields, the Navigator uses the unpredictability of details of the 
> 	user actions to increase the entropy of the RNG state.

  Note that clicking in the main window or on URLs, and timing of
network activity cause the state of the RNG to be updated.

	--Jeff

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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw at netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
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