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The dangers of weak random numbers

The dangers of weak random numbers

Posted Feb 21, 2008 23:06 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: The dangers of weak random numbers by liljencrantz
Parent article: The dangers of weak random numbers

That's a good point.  I can't think of a single thing the libc implementation excels at.  I
understand why they punted on security, but that's no reason to punt on everything!


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