JBS wrote, regarding Yarrow: > The code measures the amount of time in between two real time clock > ticks in terms of the number of iterations of a tight loop (closely > approximates clock cycles). This number varies based on a number of > factors including random fluctuations in the speed of the two clocks > (the speed also depends on hardware interrupts, etc., but this just > tends to add more randomness to the result).
I wasn't aware that Yarrow did this. This sounds like a description of how the Sun Java cryptographic library seeds SecureRandom objects if you use an empty constructor, or call SecureRandom.getSeed(). Hal _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
