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Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator |
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Mon, 31 Dec 2018 14:11:47 -0500 |
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On 12/28/18 4:24 AM, Ole Tange wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 6:41 AM Eduardo Bustamante <dualbus@gmail.com> wrote:
> :
>> You know no one is stopping you from submitting a patch to actually
>> fix the documentation right? (or maybe, you know, submitting an actual
>> working patch to change the random generator, not just drop some
>> irrelevant code snippet you got from Wikipedia).
>
> Patch attached.
Thanks for the patch. I'll take a look after I release bash-5.0. One
question: can you reproduce the same random sequence by using the same
seed? That's for backwards compatibility, even if the sequences themselves
differ.
Chet
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- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, (continued)
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Eduardo Bustamante, 2018/12/02
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Chet Ramey, 2018/12/03
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Greg Wooledge, 2018/12/03
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Ole Tange, 2018/12/03
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Chet Ramey, 2018/12/03
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Ole Tange, 2018/12/15
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Eduardo Bustamante, 2018/12/16
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Ole Tange, 2018/12/28
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator,
Chet Ramey <=
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Chet Ramey, 2018/12/17