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/dev/random: History, or Maybe Not

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Robert G. Ferrell

I have decided this time to touch on history, specifically, that of USENIX. As such I’ve delved deeply into the musty dusty archives of my own frontal lobes, which are easier to get into than the, um, backal ones (why isn’t this a word?) because most of the synapses in my midbrain have been co-opted by snatches of ’70s rock songs, Monty Python quotes, and obscure factoids I got from Snapple Peach Tea lids. That makes accessing anything further aft problematic.

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June 2015, Vol. 40, No. 3
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