At 07:47 AM 8/17/01 -0700, you wrote:
>the "white noise" from the PN junction of a transistor is the source of a
>truly random number. Software can never generate a truly random number.

Usually these natural sources have to be hashed about a bit to generate
sequences that look reasonably random.

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