"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The advantage of that -- and I have to admit I don't know if it will > ever matter in practice -- is that using an actual PRNG: > > a) is less likely to get into pathological capture behaviors. > b) doesn't make people think later that there is something magic to the > arbitrary chosen numbers. My gut feeling agrees with you that both are likely to be true; these are good points. Christian, what do you think? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html