Or if you have CEX cards ... RNG is available. On Nov 12, 2012 6:46 PM, "Paul Gilmartin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:49:50 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: > > >Wait 0.5 seconds and retry, 2 times, wait 0.4 seconds and retry, 3 > >times, wait 0.3 seconds and retry, 4 times, wait 0.2 seconds and > >retry, 6 times, wait 0.1 seconds and retry, ? times. > > > I suppose if you're doing this to avoid secondary collisions, you > might try using a pseudo-random number, making sure your PRNGs > don't run independently, but starting from the same seed. STCK > might provide a seed adequate for this purpose, though not for > cryptography. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
