On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:31:26PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Philip Rowlands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm still interested to read what Paul considers to be the > > difficulties of such an implementation? > > Suppose you're randomizing an input file of 10 million lines. And > suppose you want to approximate a "truly random" key by using a > 128-bit random key for each input line. > > Then you'll need about 1.3 billion random bits.
No! Please see my penultimate email. This is what random seeds are for. Frederik _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
