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by echaozh 3994 days ago
> (This last one relies on the operating system placing myRNG at a different address every time the program is run. It's not as strong as the other techniques.)

from: http://www.pcg-random.org/useful-features.html#id2

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Linux gives each process a 32 bit random seed, which is probably more useful (as is making a syscall). On an embedded system the address seed may well be useless anyway.