On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:24:04PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> The probability that a 128 bit random number will not be unique is 2^128.  I 
> _guarantee_ you have no conception of how _big_ that is or you wouldn't be 
> worrying about it.

I used to work for a cryptography company; I actually do understand this
kind of scale just fine. I just don't trust rand(). :-)

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Colin Watson                                       [[email protected]]
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