From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <9802e5350f20713ff27cf0be630c9fbf@plan9.bell-labs.com>
From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting research possibility?
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
	boundary="upas-wpmeizytxsuumupgkxybwohqmj"
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:23:10 -0400
Topicbox-Message-UUID: b94d0c4c-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--upas-wpmeizytxsuumupgkxybwohqmj
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

That's essentially how we use /dev/random in the security library.  I wouldn't mind
replacing the current seeding with something a little more trustworthy.  I'm afraid
that beating the cpu clock against the interrupt one will eventually fail because
they'll end up being the same crystal on some system.  On some architectures, like our
SGI's they already are.
--upas-wpmeizytxsuumupgkxybwohqmj
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Disposition: inline

Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Tue Jun 25 16:00:23 EDT 2002
Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Tue Jun 25 16:00:22 EDT 2002
Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6])
	by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP
	id 00214199E3; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:00:13 -0400 (EDT)
Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Received: from math.psu.edu (leibniz.math.psu.edu [146.186.130.2])
	by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 98B3019A1C
	for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:59:46 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from augusta.math.psu.edu (augusta.math.psu.edu [146.186.132.2])
	by math.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA19776
	for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:59:46 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200206251959.PAA19776@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting research possibility?
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:08:11 EDT."
             <9d920763b169d14abb888f85e484b5c1@plan9.bell-labs.com>
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu
Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu
X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu>
List-Archive: <https://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:59:46 -0400

> I had a few that I used to run at it every now and then; self correlation,
> and a random quadrant walk.  Haven't in a while.  I'll fix them up and stick
> them out there.  We could always use more.

What about doing Yarrow and seeding it with random thermal noise?

	- Dan C.

http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow-notes.html
--upas-wpmeizytxsuumupgkxybwohqmj--