On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Rich Greenberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Use the low order half of the TOD clock as a seed.

That does not have most entropy, at least for some models the lower
bytes don't change that often. There's probably value in combining the
two words or so. There used to be also the CPU number in the lower
bits, but I'm not sure that is still needed on modern CPUs.

| Rob

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