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Ulm's Oberon Library:
UnixSeeds
NAME
UnixSeeds - generation of seed values in the UNIX operating system
DESCRIPTION
UnixSeeds
initializes RandomGenerators.seed and
RandomGenerators.unpredictable when loaded.
If available, /dev/urandom or /dev/random
are selected and processed by SeedStreams.
Alternatively, UnixStatusSeeds is used with a set of status
retrieving shell commands that generate texts that are hard to predict.
The implementation of SurfRandomGenerators is used
for the unpredictable sequence on base of the selected seed sequence.
SEE ALSO
- RandomGenerators
-
general abstraction for pseudo random number generators
- SeedStreams
-
representation of streams as seed sequences
- SurfRandomGenerators
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simple unpredictable random function by Daniel J. Bernstein
- UnixStatusSeeds
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generate seed sequences from various UNIX status informations
Edited by: borchert, last change: 2005/08/25, revision: 1.3, converted to HTML: 2005/08/25
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