From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: problems with RANDOM in subshells
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 04:03:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1020131040312.ZM13267@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020131034651.GB7382@fysh.org>
On Jan 31, 3:46am, Zefram wrote:
} Subject: Re: problems with RANDOM in subshells
}
} The shell is probably a good place to put an entropy collector; on systems
} like Linux that have /dev/random we can just use the kernel device,
} but on other systems the shell is still in a position to see a lot of
} unpredictable timing data, so we can make randomness reliably available
} to shell scripts on all Unices. (Does Perl have such a module yet?)
According to search.cpan.org:
Statistics-MaxEntropy-0.9 by Hugo WL ter Doest Released 26th November 1998
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-31 4:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-31 3:20 Clint Adams
2002-01-31 3:46 ` Zefram
2002-01-31 4:03 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2002-01-31 4:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-01-31 11:34 ` Peter Stephenson
2002-01-31 11:07 ` Peter Stephenson
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