From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31226 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jaap-Henk Hoepman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: real programmers(TM) Date: 26 May 2000 14:09:52 +0200 Organization: University of Twente, Department of Computer Science Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87vh01lg7q.fsf@nwalsh.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167666 12855 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:34:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:34:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Norman Walsh , ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3439DD051E for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 08:08:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAB05889; Fri, 26 May 2000 07:06:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 26 May 2000 07:06:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA28483 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 07:05:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from utip202.cs.utwente.nl (utip202.cs.utwente.nl [130.89.12.123]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F9CDD051E for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 08:06:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from hoepman@localhost) by utip202.cs.utwente.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA01675; Fri, 26 May 2000 14:09:52 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: utip202.cs.utwente.nl: hoepman set sender to hoepman@cs.utwente.nl using -f Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Fri, 26 May 2000 13:28:42 +0200" X-Face: #U;T;~,y.iVz7!wB(gVzSj:j}x-tZr\v-PQU}''7h^>jaAM'vw1KA83N5/gN~kcktG%,>Q>""S?Fg`&U80!Vg=)El,s/W)W^ Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31226 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31226 On Fri, 26 May 2000 13:28:42 +0200 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Norman Walsh 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 :-) Jaap-Henk -- Jaap-Henk Hoepman | Come sail your ships around me Dept. of Computer Science | And burn these bridges down University of Twente | Nick Cave - "Ship Song" Email: hoepman@cs.utwente.nl === WWW: www.cs.utwente.nl/~hoepman Phone: +31 53 4893795 === Secr: +31 53 4893770 === Fax: +31 53 4894590 PGP ID: 0xF52E26DD Fingerprint: 1AED DDEB C7F1 DBB3 0556 4732 4217 ABEF