Re: 64-bit srandom()?
Re: 64-bit srandom()?
- Subject: Re: 64-bit srandom()?
- From: email@hidden (Peter Seebach)
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:11:48 -0600
In message <email@hidden>, "A.M."
writes:
>srandrom() doesn't really care about the actual time- you should just
>make sure you seed with the least-significant 32-bits
Exactly.
>int32_t seed=(int32_t)(time(NULL) & 0xff);
>srandom(seed);
That seems more like the least-significant 8 bits.
Note that strictly speaking, seeding srandom with time may not be exactly
secure, but then, srandom's not a cryptographically secure RNG anyway.
-s
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