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From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
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To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: rand() is broken 
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"Andrey A. Chernov" writes:
> 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.

Why not? Arc4 is a) deterministic and b) good for all bits.

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