From: rarachel@prism.poly.edu (Arsen Ray Arachelian)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 22:55:56 PDT
To: gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: XSPLIT now own ftp.wimsey.bc.ca
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> Where do you get your random numbers?  (This could be susceptible to
> the usual PRNG reverse-engineering techniques...)

Normally from lrand() or whatever.  This is of course weak, but there are
hooks for plugging in a hardware random number generator via a device
driver.  It can also take a file of random numbers and use that.

Eventually when I come across some BBS sources I may plug those into XSPLIT
and WNSTORM which uses the same random grabber functions.