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Date:      Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:29:05 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rand() is broken
Message-ID:  <20030202122905.GA62977@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20030202114817.GA41041@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
References:  <20030202070644.GA9987@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030202090422.GA59750@nagual.pp.ru> <20030202114817.GA41041@HAL9000.homeunix.com>

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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:48:17 -0800, David Schultz wrote:

> Specifically, rand() isn't very interesting in the lower-order
> bits, and it spectacularly fails nearly all of Marsaglia's

It seems that you speak about old formulae, we use new one (which 
intended to fix low-ordered bits), see our rand.c source.

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

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