Re: TOR Park Exit Node Question

[Matt Thorne <mlthorne@xxxxxxxxx>]

while hard to believe, I have to ask what method does the tor app use to generate "randomness"?

is it at all based on hardware configurations? or maybe dependent upon timing of events?

-=Matt=-

 

On 9/29/05, Arrakis Tor <arrakistor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I find that very hard to believe. I will investigate this in a couple of days.

ST

On 9/29/05, Bob Braunstein < r.h.b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> To restate the observation:  When first running TOR Park from an USB device,
> one almost always ends up exiting via a site (or two) in the Neatherlands.
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> I haven't looked at the code, but I suspect another reason that this might
> be happening is that the random number generators used to pick the route are
> not initialized as well as we might want them to be.