re source of random bits on a unix workstation in article pivot sbi com bet sbi com bennett todd salomon brothers inc ny writes this came up because i decided to configure up mit magic cookie security for x r for this to work you need to stick some bits that an intruder can t guess in a file readable only by you which x client applications read they pass the bits back to the server when they want to establish a connection what i settled on was grabbing a bunch of traffic off the network basically i ran etherfind u x greater compress and skipped over k of output then grabbed my bits as best i can tell these are bits that can be expected to be reasonably uniformly distributed and quite unguessable by an intruder for your application what you can do is to encrypt the real time clock value with a secret key
