From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 7 02:55:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA29042 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 02:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA29037 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 02:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id CAA02691; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 02:53:28 -0700 (PDT) To: Richard Wackerbarth cc: Terry Lambert , ache@nagual.ru, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I plan to change random() for -current (was Re: rand() and random()) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Oct 1996 04:28:30 CDT." Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 02:53:28 -0700 Message-ID: <2689.844682008@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This discussion should probably be made in a Numerical Analysis arena. > It is not a topic of debate for OS people. Which is, of course, an utterly ridiculous thing to say since the OS people are still faced with *implementing* a practical solution for which the numerical analysis people are little help at all - ask them for a practical solution and they'll hand you a 50 page paper describing "the tao of randomness", of great interest perhaps to the most die-hard crypto weenies but not to the general user populace whom the *OS* people have to answer to. Jordan