Smaller than milliseconds?

[Dar Scott]

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 04:10 PM, Nelson Zink wrote:

> My idea is this: the time it takes to run some little bit of code isn't
> predictable (temperature of the processor and about a zillion other 
> factors)
> and changes from moment to moment, and is specific to every local 
> machine
> and circumstance. So it might be possible to write a very secure RNG 
> that
> uses the unpredictability of run time for the seed.

But do you have any reason to believe the processor clock and the long 
seconds clock are not the same?

Dar Scott