----- Original Message -----
From: "Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:05 PM
Subject: RE: [plug] random number generator
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Chris G Haravata wrote:
> ..
> > RE: [plug] random number generatorwell, yes. those that you can with a
> > simple script, not from within a full-blown program...
>
> you can read a few bytes from /dev/urandom which is a cryptographically
> secure RNG. not available on some UNIX'es though.
8 = /dev/random Nondeterministic random number gen.
9 = /dev/urandom Faster, less secure random number
gen.
183 = /dev/intel_rng Intel i8x0 random number generator
probably you are referring to /dev/intel_rng and not /dev/urandom?
fooler.
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