On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Tim Peters wrote: > Speed and capacity, for two things ;-) As the HotBits page says, > their method can't create more than about 100 bytes per second.
Yeah, I just couldn't resist. > So even if they were willing (which they aren't) to satisfy a request > for 1000000 random bytes (as Dick used in one of his programs), it would > take close to 3 hours to get them. Actually, there's a limited number of requests you can make in a 24-hour period; so this really isn't practical, except maybe... > Note that a reasonable use for this service is to request a "small" > number of random bytes to /seed/ a fast deterministic generator. Yup. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
