Re: text encryption
From: Vlad Tsyrklevich (root@127.0.0.1)
Date: 02/01/03
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From: Vlad Tsyrklevich <root@127.0.0.1> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 21:32:55 GMT
On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 12:23:17 -0800, athegates wrote:
> 2. If a random number generator is coded to use the date inadditon to
> the time, would it generlly be true to be more random?
Probably, "random" numbers created by most programming languages on most
OSs (can't say that for OBSD :-)) are not random, but if you add in info
like date and time to be factors it would make it much more random
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