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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:05
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:43:20 -0800 (PST)
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Alex Alten wrote:
> If Intel will vouch for the "randomness" of it then I think that will be
> good enough for me. Having a real RNG available on every shipping PC
> would be great boon to those of us who ship pure software products. Of
> course then Microsoft will need to come out with Windows 2001 that includes
> an RNG API of some 300 functions.
This reminds me - someone mentioned they were rewriting dev/random for
linux to use Yarrow (which would have the amusing property of making it
possible to write to as well as read from /dev/random) Does anybody know
if that's done yet?
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:05