Random algorithm

[Jacques Hausser]

Very interesting ! I didn't know that... my information is slightly  
obsolete.

Many thanks

Jacques

Le 12 nov. 2008 à 03:34, Mark Smith a écrit :

> Interestingly, on OS X and Linux, you can read from "/dev/random"  
> and get crypto-quality random numbers:
>
>      put "/dev/random" into tFile
>      open file tFile for binary read
>      read from file tFile for 1000 uint4
>      put it into tRandNums
>      close file tFile
>
> will get you a comma delimited list of 1000 numbers bewteen 0 and 2  
> ^ 32.
>
> I can't find anything similar on Windows, but maybe one of Ken's  
> crafty VB scripts can get at the relevant OS API call  
> "CryptGenRandom".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urandom
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
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