-- At 09:24 PM 7/19/99 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: > So what you are saying is that you'd be happy to run your server > forever on an inital charge of 128 bits of entropy and no more > randomness ever? Yes, though I would probably prefer an initial charge of 1684 bits of entropy. (the number of possible internal states of an RC4 state machine used as a pseudo random number generator.) One can acquire that much entropy by catching mouse moves while the setup wizard is running. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Jz81PFtIbEupfsmW1nl8Lc7TZa5xOjPv9rkwt3k4 4AxL7NSB+y+fd5GRQsKzuMrGusMga3Ea4aCFiinqS
- Re: depleting the random number generator David Honig
- Re: depleting the random number generator James A. Donald
- Re: depleting the random number generator David Honig
- Re: depleting the random number generator Ben Laurie
- Re: depleting the random number generator Bill Stewart
- Re: depleting the random number generator Ben Laurie
- RE: depleting the random number generator Enzo Michelangeli
- RE: depleting the random number generator bram
- Re: depleting the random number generator Ben Laurie
- Re: depleting the random number generator bram
- Re: depleting the random number generator James A. Donald
- Re: depleting the random number genera... Arnold G. Reinhold
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- Re: depleting the random numb... James A. Donald
- Re: depleting the random numb... bram
- Re: depleting the random numb... James A. Donald
- Re: depleting the random numb... John Kelsey
- Summary re: /dev/random Sandy Harris
- Proposal (was Summary re: /de... Sandy Harris
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- Re: Proposal (was Summary re:... Greg Rose