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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Paul   
   Re: srand(0)   
   26 Dec 25 07:56:58   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:52:15 -0500, Paul wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 12/26/2025 12:42 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 23:25:39 -0500, Paul wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> My CPU happens to have a random number generator running at   
   >>> 500MB/sec.   
   >>>   
   >>> ...   
   >>>   
   >>> The Linux people happen not to like those, but, they exist anyway,   
   >>> chugging away.   
   >>   
   >> Because it’s difficult to see how you can trust them.   
   >>   
   >> Not without thoroughly mashing them through something like this   
   >> , anyway.   
   >   
   > The claim was, that x86 processors didn't have anything.   
      
   Not what I was responding to. I said nothing about such a claim, either   
   way.   
      
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