[Mojonation-devel] need good entropy gathering under win32 (fwd)

jason petrone jp at NOSPAMdemonseed.net
Thu Jun 28 09:27:48 EDT 2001


Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> Could some clueful win32 hacker, please see `randsource.py'[1] and give it a
> strong source of randomness (we just need an initial seed of 160 bits).  Here
> is an article saying how to do it: [2]

An easy way to cheat on this is to use urllib or corba to download hardware
generated random numbers from www.random.org.

jason



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