Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:55:42 +0000 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Final fix for 0 problem (was Re: rand() is broken) Message-ID: <200302031055.h13AtgaX058602@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Feb 2003 01:26:36 %2B0300." <20030202222635.GA68806@nagual.pp.ru>
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"Andrey A. Chernov" writes: > > 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= > > 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. How do you _know_ that your newly chosen magic number isn't going to cause some kind of recurring (and too-short) sequence of numbers? Will it recur after 5 iterations? 100? 1000? 1000000? M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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