From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 26 7: 0:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8791937B65D for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 07:00:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: by gw.nectar.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BC8BA18C91; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:00:31 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:00:31 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Kris Kennaway , Terry Lambert , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/astro/xglobe/files patch-random Message-ID: <20010226090031.B42108@spawn.nectar.com> References: <20010225005813.A29124@mollari.cthul.hu> <200102260241.TAA07028@usr05.primenet.com> <20010225193157.A16118@mollari.cthul.hu> <3A9A0D1F.BEC3ECA2@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A9A0D1F.BEC3ECA2@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:00:31PM +0900 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:00:31PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > I don't see the rand() algorithm as being bad in any way, unless you > stupidly try to use it for security purposes, like generating an > encryption key. Or unless you want numbers that actually look kind of random. See my previous posting about non-cryptography uses in which rand() was insufficient, for whatever reason. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message