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

> On Fri, 26 May 2000 13:28:42 +0200 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE=
 (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes:
> > Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> >=20
> > > I fear that's an incomplete solution. There are only a finite
> > > number of seed values.
> >=20
> > IIRC, /dev/random is a real random number generator, not a pseudo
> > random number generator.  So no problem there.
>=20
> 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