Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 08:51:14 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Dieter Buerssner <buers AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Uptime and entropy in DOS
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On 15 Feb 2000, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

> [I am not sure, what you mean by seed generator]

`random's `initstate' function uses this simple RNG to prime its
initial vector of random values.

> There may be a misunderstanding here. If I am not mistaken,
> your code is the classic (bad) implementation of rand()
> in BSD unices, while Eli is referring to BSD random().

No, there's no misunderstanding: we were both talking about BSD
`random' and its derivatives.