Thanks for the pointer. I thought about "stocking up", but I decided not to because I wanted something small that would more or less deal with the numbers "running out".
The CORBA interface definitely sounds better than HTTP, but I like the fact that the SGI folks are crypto geeks (meaning the quality of the data is very good). However, I don't like the fact that the seed buffer I get is publicly available for a full minute before the next one comes along.
Is anyone doing CORBA in Squeak? I used the Url class to read the HTTP stream; originally I wanted a Random class in GemStone, but there is nothing there except basic socket support.
Steve
Patrick Logan wrote:
There are a few sources of true random numbers on the Internet, so your system could have some redundancy. See http://www.random.org
Also at this particular site is a source of random numbers in bulk via HTTP or CORBA, so you could "stock up" on random numbers and use them as you need them.
For what it's worth, linux boxes [perhaps others] have a /dev/random with entropy collected from the system. That's a decent source as well. /dev/srandom is a larger source built from /dev/random.
-rj
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Wart [mailto:swart@home.com] Sent: Sunday, May 02, 1999 8:35 AM To: patrickl@gemstone.com; Squeak List Subject: RE: Random Numbers
Thanks for the pointer. I thought about "stocking up", but I decided not to because I wanted something small that would more or less deal with the numbers "running out".
The CORBA interface definitely sounds better than HTTP, but I like the fact that the SGI folks are crypto geeks (meaning the quality of the data is very good). However, I don't like the fact that the seed buffer I get is publicly available for a full minute before the next one comes along.
Is anyone doing CORBA in Squeak? I used the Url class to read the HTTP stream; originally I wanted a Random class in GemStone, but there is nothing there except basic socket support.
Steve
Patrick Logan wrote:
There are a few sources of true random numbers on the Internet, so your system could have some redundancy. See http://www.random.org
Also at this particular site is a source of random numbers in bulk via HTTP or CORBA, so you could "stock up" on random numbers and use them as you need them.
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