From: "Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <khijol!erc>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 08:58:33 PDT
To: sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld)
Subject: Re: My Day
In-Reply-To: <199509201218.MAA00433@orchard.medford.ma.us>
Message-ID: <199509201411.JAA04860@khijol>
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> Getting real entropy from mouse movements under X may be tricky,
> because the X server goes out of its way to compress mouse movement
> reporting and to buffer events sent to the client ("X is an exercise
> in avoiding system calls").  You'll probably get less entropy than you
> might think.

Also add that many people seem to tend to swirl the mouse in fast circles,
where there isn't *any* latency between mouse movements, and you get even
less entropy.  I suspect that Colin Plumb's code, while a nice try, would
be a bit less useful that might have been otherwise suspected. 
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Q.	What's the trouble with writing an MS-DOS program to emulate Clinton?
A.	Figuring out what to do with the other 639K of memory.

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