Re: Quick Randomizing Algorithm.

[Nick Hill <nikhilwiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

The i810 has a h/w assisted random no. generator. 2.4 supports this, and uses
the standard /dev/random interface, IIRC. 

Nikhil.

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 07:27:01PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> >From time to time, there is talk of a /dev/random on many kernel mailing
> lists. I don't have any experience using them. But you may want to
> try it out.
> 
> Typically, they'll use a hardware mechanism, rather than a numercial
> algorithm with a seed to generate the random number.
> 
> 	-Arun