From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 3 2: 0: 7 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 A553737B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 02:00:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42EE43E4A for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 02:00:04 -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 h13A03d6073486; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:00:03 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by pobrecita.freebsd.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h13A025o073485; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:00:02 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:00:02 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rand() is broken Message-ID: <20030203100002.GA73386@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20030202070644.GA9987@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030202090422.GA59750@nagual.pp.ru> <20030203002639.GB44914@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030203002639.GB44914@HAL9000.homeunix.com> 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 16:26:39 -0800, David Schultz wrote: > > The correlation is still present with your patch and NSHUFF set to > 10. For instance, try seeding rand() with contiguous monotonically > increasing integers, and observe the four lowest-order bits. Since you already have running framework for that, could you please test it with NSHUFF picked from 100-2000 range? -- 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