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Doug Kaufman wrote:
> "bdeck" <bdeck AT lycos DOT co DOT uk> writes:
> 
>> Doug, I have considered the package you have suggested, and
>> recommend that individuals interested in installing yet another
>> DOS device driver to their system for this purpose recompile,
>> enabling /dev/random as the entropy source or however.
> 
>> I would have prefered a source-plugable runtime-enabled
>> '/dev/random' solution (using a FSEXT open handler?). But
>> thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> The original developers of "noise" re-released it last year under
> a much more liberal license, so that it should be possible to
> incorporate parts of it into other programs. Unfortunately, I am
> not a programmer and can't do much with it myself. It is waiting
> for someone with an interest in entropy on DOS machines to take
> on the project.
> 
> The noise source is available on my website at
> "http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html".

A version of the Mersenne Twister PRNG is available within the
hashlib.zip package to facilitate testing.  You can get that at:

   <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/>

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