Generating Unique Keys
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Wed Jan 29 14:35:59 EST 2003
Laura> See http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ for another way to get real
Laura> random.
I can see the announcement now:
Santa Clara, CA (AP) - Intel announced today that their new Pentium-7
processor will include a small on-chip Geiger-Müller tube and new
instruction, RINT, which will fetch random bytes generated by the tube.
Data for the RINT instruction will be fetched from a 256 kilobyte cache
of random bytes generated from the random time intervals between
detections by the tube.
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