Re: Looking for symbol table hashing algorithm

David Chase <chase@naturalbridge.com> wrote:
>Generating that many random bits could be a bit of a pain; you might
>just snag 8 1024-bit PGP keys from random people. That should be good
>enough. A dedicated generator of random numbers would flip a number
>of coins...


Note that a growing number of systems -- Linux in particular -- have a
/dev/random that returns high-quality random data based on low-level
hardware behavior. This is intended for applications like generation of
encryption keys, so it should work nicely (in fact, it's vast overkill)
for more mundane jobs like generating such a table.
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