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Date:      Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:21:47 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Cc:        "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rand() is broken
Message-ID:  <20030202182147.GB66318@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200302021734.h12HYJaX049011@grimreaper.grondar.org>
References:  <20030202154356.GA65166@nagual.pp.ru> <200302021734.h12HYJaX049011@grimreaper.grondar.org>

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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 17:34:19 +0000, Mark Murray wrote:
> "Andrey A. Chernov" writes:
> > > Objections?
> > 
> > We can't, simple because sequence must be repeated for the same seed 
> > across the calls.
> 
> RC4 is repeatable.

It seems we mean different things saying arc4random(), see my answer in 
the thread.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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