Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 02:53:28 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, ache@nagual.ru, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I plan to change random() for -current (was Re: rand() and random()) Message-ID: <2689.844682008@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Oct 1996 04:28:30 CDT." <l03010501ae7e7bef91e4@[208.2.87.4]>
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> This discussion should probably be made in a Numerical Analysis arena. > It is not a topic of debate for OS people. Which is, of course, an utterly ridiculous thing to say since the OS people are still faced with *implementing* a practical solution for which the numerical analysis people are little help at all - ask them for a practical solution and they'll hand you a 50 page paper describing "the tao of randomness", of great interest perhaps to the most die-hard crypto weenies but not to the general user populace whom the *OS* people have to answer to. Jordan
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