Messages in this thread | | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: random() in kernel | Date | Tue, 28 May 1996 10:47:57 +0100 (BST) |
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> 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.
See ext2fs it had a deletion random number generator about 2 lines long. I seem to remember using it for igmp too
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