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Re:Show HN: Simple way to obtain pseudorandomness from CPU c... by zkms on Thursday August 16, 2018 @02:29AM (#17772392)
> BitGenGo is actually a small program which spawns off two goroutines(threads) and they take turns setting a shared variable with a value(zero/one). Every time the user requests a bit, the current value of the shared variable is returned.

dakarand!

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Re:Show HN: Simple way to obtain pseudorandomness from CPU c... by HerrMonnezza on Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:32AM (#17772953)
I had to google "dakarand"; here are links to the original post announcing the DakaRand code and the GitHub repository:

- https://dankaminsky.com/2012/08/15/dakarand/ - https://github.com/stribika/dakarand

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