From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 22:19:11 PDT
To: Deranged Mutant <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Silly NetScape RND tricks...
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At 12:05 PM 9/20/95 -0400, Deranged Mutant wrote:
>
>I've only been skimming the NetScape-related posts lately, but I've yet
>to see anyone mention using a keyboard-timing sampler as a source for
>some random bits

Under windows, you get a lot more entropy from mouse timing and position
than keyboard hits.

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