Re: [Hampshire] OpenSSL in Debian is broken

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Autor: James Ogden
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A: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Asunto: Re: [Hampshire] OpenSSL in Debian is broken
2008/5/14 Nick Chalk <nick@???>:

> Peter Alefounder <p_alefounder@???> wrote:
> > Why are pseudo-random numbers used anyway? Is it
> > beyond the wit of man to devise a bit of
> > hardware that would produce genuine random
> > numbers?
>
> What is a "genuine" random number?



http://xkcd.com/221/

James