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Date:      Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:05:00 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rand() is broken
Message-ID:  <20030202210500.GD74654@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200302022057.PAA26422@tonnant.cnchost.com>
References:  <20030202205254.GC74654@rot13.obsecurity.org> <200302022057.PAA26422@tonnant.cnchost.com>

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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:57:45PM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > Since you keep talking about random(), I must conclude you're
> > knee-jerking, since we're not discussing that function.  Please stay
> > on-topic :-)
>=20
> Read through the thread.  In particular see Mark's message
> <200302021532.h12FWWaX047973@grimreaper.grondar.org> where he
> says
>=20
>     Good point. We can re-implement random() internally with arc4rand().

I assume he transposed and meant "rand() internally with arc4random()".

Kris

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