Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 01:26:36 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Final fix for 0 problem (was Re: rand() is broken) Message-ID: <20030202222635.GA68806@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030202222101.GA75656@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030202102621.GA60900@nagual.pp.ru> <20030202123035.GB62977@nagual.pp.ru> <20030203001735.A30440@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20030202134225.GA63673@nagual.pp.ru> <20030202140223.GA63836@nagual.pp.ru> <20030202141605.GA64157@nagual.pp.ru> <20030202151049.GA64866@nagual.pp.ru> <20030202210608.GA74910@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030202215539.GB68356@nagual.pp.ru> <20030202222101.GA75656@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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--G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 14:21:02 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > If I understand correctly, this still doesn't solve the problem, > because any PRNG sequence that hits the "magic" value will still get > stuck there forever. It was true for the first patch I post which just move problem to another= =20 place (this is commonly spreaded method for this PRNG). It is false for the last patch I post which not stuck with any given seed. --=20 Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBPj2bG+JgpPLZnQjrAQFghwQAp8Wva1vtpzbbXvivfwNNQRuGxyBeZm3/ nW14H1cRyKORKZfE8SWYatA/8goxCpyDiBMUiCdHQasdDwGmAc++wzzlMuaiS0qL 2zCFemlY/okYgeC6SgfzAy+GnfWAeiMbs6vJGBF6mLvhb2rJwfgtzpq883TOIpM3 ZNk44rIlaN8= =VXtG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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