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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: mktemp() patch
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:1) Just totally opposite: mixing random with non-random sources you'll get 
:into collision much faster then with random source only.  2) Yet, of course, 
:the code handles collisions.
:
:-- 
:Andrey A. Chernov
:<ache@nagual.pp.ru>

    Think about it.  If you mix a random number with a non-random number,
    using xor, what you get is.... a random number.  It's neither stronger
    nor weaker.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>


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