Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 May 1996 18:47:33 +0100 | From | Pedro Roque Marques <> | Subject | random() in kernel |
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Hi,
I need to obtain random numbers in the kernel, to be more clear i'm looking for statistic random numbers. Since there are a lot of people out there that got some handly algorithms i would like a pointer to them. The generator doesn't need to be very good, size and speed are major concerns. The reason why the phisical event counter based entropy is not too good for my purposes is that the generator will be called right after system initialization and the fact that the objective is obtaining equally distributed numbers.
What is in question here is the right time to send packets to the network to avoid colisions.
./Pedro.
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