From: Link Hochnadel <lhochnadel AT hns DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Uptime and entropy in DOS
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:21:16 -0500
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"Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" wrote:
> 
> Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to get the uptime of a DOS system?  I need more entropy
> > than the 32 bits I get from time(NULL) to initialize a pseudorandom
> > number generator.  Is there a predictable way to get at least 64 bits
> > of entropy?
> 

Flip the bits end-to-end, then multiply both values to get 64 bits.


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