From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 2 4:29:10 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 4A1C937B401 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 04:29:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FFE43E4A for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 04:29:07 -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 h12CT5d6063009; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:29:05 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by pobrecita.freebsd.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h12CT59M063008; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:29:05 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:29:05 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rand() is broken Message-ID: <20030202122905.GA62977@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20030202070644.GA9987@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030202090422.GA59750@nagual.pp.ru> <20030202114817.GA41041@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030202114817.GA41041@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 03:48:17 -0800, David Schultz wrote: > Specifically, rand() isn't very interesting in the lower-order > bits, and it spectacularly fails nearly all of Marsaglia's It seems that you speak about old formulae, we use new one (which intended to fix low-ordered bits), see our rand.c source. -- 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