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HAVEGE

Posted Nov 20, 2012 22:24 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: HAVEGE by ajb
Parent article: LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers

Well, thank you Captain Obvious.

The question is not about source of randomness (contemporary CPUs are not asyncronous, but contemporary PCs as whole most certainly are asyncronous: memory access is just an obvious example), the question is how much if it is actually retained in the output, if any.


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HAVEGE

Posted Nov 20, 2012 22:43 UTC (Tue) by ajb (subscriber, #9694) [Link]

You've managed to be both rude and incorrect. Next time think before commenting.

HAVEGE

Posted Nov 28, 2012 16:53 UTC (Wed) by akeane (subscriber, #85436) [Link]

>You've managed to be both rude and incorrect. Next time think before commenting.

"Captain Obvious" is really funny though, I shall endeavor to use it more whilst conversing with minions!

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