1995-09-21 - Re: (none)
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From: karlton@ghoti.mcom.com (Phil Karlton)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: karlton@ghoti.mcom.com (Phil Karlton)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 23:06:30 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: (none)
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James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com> writes:
Whenever you need a random number, take a one way checksum,
for example MD5, of the most recently altered part of that
buffer. Use that as your random number.
How is this any better than feeding the data into the MD5
hash as I go? This is not a rhetorical question.
PK
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