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LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers

LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers

Posted Nov 27, 2012 8:44 UTC (Tue) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers by BenHutchings
Parent article: LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers

Hurrah! This is better. The timer interrupt on modern systems can produce something indistinguishable from random given a high enough precision time source. Of course, you don't actually know it's random so you can't credit it, but it will definitely help the generation of unpredictable numbers on otherwise quiet systems.


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