On Fri 20 Jan 2012 04:28, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > `seed->random-state' is poorly implemented when passed a numeric > argument. It converts the number to a decimal string, and then > `scm_i_init_rstate' takes over and basically adds every 8th byte > together to form the 64-bit internal state.
Is that what it does? I agree that it's a pretty bad initializer to a pretty bad PRNG, but from what I can tell, it does use all of the bytes in the input. They aren't very dense bytes, entropy-wise, but there are more of them, so I think the amount of entropy added to the seed is the same. Dunno. Am I reading that code wrong? Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
