Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl> writes:

> On Fri, 26 May 2000 13:28:42 +0200 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> > Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> > 
> > > I fear that's an incomplete solution. There are only a finite
> > > number of seed values.
> > 
> > IIRC, /dev/random is a real random number generator, not a pseudo
> > random number generator.  So no problem there.
> 
> But it blocks as soon as the entropy pool is (estimated to be) empty. So the
> problem remains :-)

But doesn't it seed it from interrupt timings, etc?  So just play a
bandwidth/keyboard/mouse intensive shoot-em-up game, and you write your
program while having fun at the same time. :)

-bp