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Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace

Posted Mar 30, 2012 5:04 UTC (Fri) by cpeterso (guest, #305)
In reply to: Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace by slashdot
Parent article: Russell: Sources of Randomness for Userspace

Hash(root password + MAC address) will always produce the same RNG seed. You could mix in the current time as a salt to get a different value very time.

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