In article <199910061356.JAA22530@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> you write:
>Wasn't the /dev/random stuff invented exactly for this kind of uses? I'd
>assume you can bypass the MD hash here, and just steal a byte or two
>directly from the entropy pool.
No. You really want to be sure that an IP ID isn't repeated too soon.
That guarantee, you have not for really random IDs.
Regards, Hannah.
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