Random numbers

Sandy Harris sandyinchina at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 13:40:24 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Jordon Bedwell <jordon at envygeeks.com> wrote:
> On 11/04/2010 04:01 AM, Sandy Harris wrote:

>> If you have serious randomness needs and your board does
>> not have an RNG built-in, I'd say Turbid was the obvious
>> thing to use.
>
> I don't know how well that is going to work out on highly tailored
> servers that have no sound chip at all.  Not even on-board speakers.

And no chipset RNG either? And no spare slot for a sound
card? Or USB for a USB sound device?

In that case, I guess you're toasted, but I think it might
be a fairly rare case.




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