Re: Generating a true random number?

[rjq () phys ksu edu (Rob Quinn)]

>  I need to generate an 8 byte random DES key, so of course, I need a way
> of generating 8 random bytes. Any ideas?

 This was discussed on a comp.* group a while back, and some suggestions
(for a UNIX machine) were to use the kernel memory. Don't actually dig through
the memory yourself (since most non-root people can't), but use a command that
can. I've been using the output of `pstat -p | sum' myself.

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