re source of random bits on a unix workstation bennett todd salomon brothers inc ny bet sbi com wrote however unless i missed something the only source they suggested aside from a hardware rng that seems available and unguessable by an intruder when a unix is fresh booted is i o buffers related to network traffic i believe my solution basically uses that strategy without requiring me to reach into the kernel a few more sources are statistics on your filesystems easily and quickly obtained and the output from the rusage system call you can also exec a finger to one or more favorite heavily used systems though this can take several seconds cf the source code to ripem on ripem msu edu mark r
