Quote: for true random numbers on heavily used workstations, repeatedly set an alarm and increment until the interrupt occurs.

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[CryptoLib's] truly random number generator … works by setting an alarm and then incrementing … [The lower order byte is xor'd with the output byte buffer and the output buffer is rotated by two bits. This is repeated 4*n times for an n-byte output.] … The generator obviously depends on the randomness of … [It works well for heavily used, networked workstations, and reasonably well for lightly loaded workstations.]   Google-1   Google-2

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