Thanks for the pointer. I thought about "stocking up", but I decided not to
because I wanted something small that would more or less deal with the
numbers "running out".

The CORBA interface definitely sounds better than HTTP, but I like the fact
that the SGI folks are crypto geeks (meaning the quality of the data is very
good). However, I don't like the fact that the seed buffer I get is publicly
available for a full minute before the next one comes along.

Is anyone doing CORBA in Squeak? I used the Url class to read the HTTP
stream; originally I wanted a Random class in GemStone, but there is nothing
there except basic socket support.

Steve

Patrick Logan wrote:
>
> There are a few sources of true random numbers on the Internet, so
> your system could have some redundancy. See http://www.random.org
>
> Also at this particular site is a source of random numbers in bulk via
> HTTP or CORBA, so you could "stock up" on random numbers and use them
> as you need them.
>