Re: Unrandom Random (was Two fixes I would like!)
[email protected] (Cees de Groot)
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Ken G. Brown <[email protected]> said: >An associate of mine has previously run into problems with utilizing underlying platform random number generation for encryption and >security and had come across a site that plotted noise spheres for various RNG's. Unfortunately, the site is no longer accessible. >He ended up going with the attached 'C' code for RNG, for use in the algorithms. Please, all - we're discussing here whether to include a quick fix for a simple problem - the UUID's repeated b/c the randomizing stuff wasn't working correctly. I think that the discussions on how and whether to generally fix/implement (P)RNG in Squeak belong on the Squeak-dev list. -- Cees de Groot http://www.cdegroot.com <[email protected]> GnuPG 1024D/E0989E8B 0016 F679 F38D 5946 4ECD 1986 F303 937F E098 9E8B Cogito ergo evigilo