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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 12:52:54 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>,
	"Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, phk@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: rand() is broken
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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:55:25AM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > RC4 is _utterly_ repeatable, given a particular seed/key.
>=20
> May be but it is not the same as the current random().  Also,
> I know you will want to change it the next time some one
> points out a problem with RC4.

Since you keep talking about random(), I must conclude you're
knee-jerking, since we're not discussing that function.  Please stay
on-topic :-)

Kris

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