Re: new coreutil? shuffle - randomize file contents

[Frederik Eaton]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:31:26PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Philip Rowlands <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I'm still interested to read what Paul considers to be the
> > difficulties of such an implementation?
> 
> Suppose you're randomizing an input file of 10 million lines.  And
> suppose you want to approximate a "truly random" key by using a
> 128-bit random key for each input line.
> 
> Then you'll need about 1.3 billion random bits. 

No! Please see my penultimate email. This is what random seeds are
for.

Frederik