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Date:      Sun, 2 Feb 2003 12:52:54 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>, "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rand() is broken
Message-ID:  <20030202205254.GC74654@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200302021955.OAA20742@glatton.cnchost.com>
References:  <200302021908.h12J8laX050048@grimreaper.grondar.org> <200302021955.OAA20742@glatton.cnchost.com>

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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:55:25AM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > RC4 is _utterly_ repeatable, given a particular seed/key.
>=20
> May be but it is not the same as the current random().  Also,
> I know you will want to change it the next time some one
> points out a problem with RC4.

Since you keep talking about random(), I must conclude you're
knee-jerking, since we're not discussing that function.  Please stay
on-topic :-)

Kris

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