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to: Mike Bilow
from: Vadim Baranovsky
date: 1996-05-22 06:07:00
subject: Re: Random Seed

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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