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Unix: How random is random?

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Network World; By Sandra Henry-Stocker 		Mail this story
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As anyone who thinks about random numbers very often might tell you, numbers generated by a program have a limitation. Programs follow carefully crafted steps, and those steps aren’t even close to being truly random. You can increase the randomness of RANDOM's value...

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