From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 2 10:21:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8AC37B401; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:21:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC23443F43; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: from pobrecita.freebsd.ru (ache@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.pp.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h12ILld6066380; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:21:47 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by pobrecita.freebsd.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h12ILlQf066379; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:21:47 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:21:47 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Mark Murray Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rand() is broken Message-ID: <20030202182147.GB66318@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20030202154356.GA65166@nagual.pp.ru> <200302021734.h12HYJaX049011@grimreaper.grondar.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302021734.h12HYJaX049011@grimreaper.grondar.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 17:34:19 +0000, Mark Murray wrote: > "Andrey A. Chernov" writes: > > > Objections? > > > > We can't, simple because sequence must be repeated for the same seed > > across the calls. > > RC4 is repeatable. It seems we mean different things saying arc4random(), see my answer in the thread. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message