Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make cryptoapi non-optional?

Måns Rullgård
2003-08-18T12:13:17Z

Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> writes:

>> now if you can repeatably get the same number then you probably have a bug
>> in the random number code, but if you need uniqueness you need something
>> else.
>
> Can you think of another, reliable, source of uniqueness?

You could use your geographical position and the exact time, both
easily available with GPS. In case several machines are within the
GPS resolution, you could add some more parameters that would
typically be different, such as network address.

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