From: John K Clark (johnkclark@fastmail.fm)
Date: Tue Oct 13 2009 - 00:16:15 MDT
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:02:45 +0100, "Mu In Taiwan"
<mu.in.taiwan@gmail.com> said:
> > I could be wrong but I don't believe the the Mac has a true random
> > number generator, just pseudo random
> You are wrong, and you could have checked your facts even by using
> Wikipedia for about 30 seconds, rather than continuing to spew your junk claims out
> all over the mailing list.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random
> " In Unix-like <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like> operating
> systems<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system>
> , */dev/random* is a special
> file<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_file> that
> serves as a true random number
> generator<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generator> or
> as a pseudorandom number
Well that's jim dandy, but I don't give a hoot in hell what Unix says,
it can't produce true random numbers either. None of the stuff listed
above says the Mac has a hardware random number generator. I know that a
few years ago INTEL included a true random number generator in one of
its chip sets, but it was slow and they discontinued it. Perhaps the Mac
does have such a separate gadget nowadays, I don't know nor do I much
care.
> I therefore challenge your "Jupiter Brain" to a game of
> stone-paper-scissors, armed with my random number generator.
What is your point, that a Jupiter brain couldn't incorporate a 2$
random number generatot if it wanted?
John K Clark
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