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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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