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From: | Fabrice ILPONSE <fabrice AT asim DOT lip6 DOT fr> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Random numbers aren't random - ??? |
Date: | Fri, 25 Sep 1998 18:23:27 +0200 |
Organization: | Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France |
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DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Florian Janoschek wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm just writing a little encryption program which sould be able to create > its own random passwords. The code is something like that: > > srandom(biostime(0, 0)); // DOS-ticks are used as seed value > unsigned char C = (rand() % 255) + 1; // no null-characters i think srandom is to be use with random. for rand() use srand -- ^ ^ ^ | | | +-+-+ Fabrice ILPONSE | email: fabrice AT asim DOT lip6 DOT fr | | -
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