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Hello Mike!
Monday May 20 1996, Mike Bilow wrote to Sean Price:
MB> Hey, that's not what I said when I gave you the ELF hash code! I told
MB> you it would produce a uniformly distributed seed, not a random one.
MB> There's a big difference there.
I use for random seed the combination of Os/2 milliseconds timer and Unix time.
Then I hash its by MD5 and use as initial seed for free running random
generator(implemented as thread) and use its(random generator) production
for DES/Russian_GOST encription - it produce very good results.
P.S. Sorry for my poor English :-(
Best wishes, Vadim!
Santa-Fox Team
E-Mail: Vadim{at}tso.emissia.spb.su
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