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Date:      Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:42:58 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: rand() is broken
Message-ID:  <20030202124258.GA63153@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20030202043722.E77226@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz>
References:  <20030202070644.GA9987@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030202090422.GA59750@nagual.pp.ru> <20030202091106.GA72723@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030202102621.GA60900@nagual.pp.ru> <20030202123035.GB62977@nagual.pp.ru> <20030202043722.E77226@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz>

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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:38:53 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> I think it's worthwhile to wait till we get a chance to try arc4random().

This is libc's rand/random, it can't be fixed with arc4random() as 
designed.

> Also, have you run the code you're proposing through the tests in the post
> that David Schultz just made?

This is fix form problem with 0, not for seed -> 1st value correlation.
I can't deal with two problems with same time, lets be sequental.

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

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