Thanks for the info.
Aziz,,,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "smoot"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> "Abdulaziz Ghuloum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>> Doesn't /dev/random produce pseudo-random numbers also? What makes
>> reading from it better than using perl's rand or C's rand?
>
> This is getting a bit of topic.
>
> /dev/random is seeded with supposedly random events. In Linux I believe
> it takes the time between keyboard and mouse events and builds up an
> entropy base. The better the entropy base, the more random the bits
> from /dev/random are.
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