On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 13:19:17 -0400 (EDT) Thomas Dickey wrote: > It depends - lynx's configure script looks for these pairs: > > arc4random_push/arc4random > arc4random_stir/arc4random > srandom/random > srand48/lrand48 > srand/rand > > On Debian/testing, it'll use srandom and random, whose manpage says > non-linear: > > The random() function uses a non-linear additive feedback random > number > generator employing a default table of size 31 long integers to > return > successive pseudo-random numbers in the range from 0 to RAND_MAX. > The > period of this random number generator is very large, > approximately > 16*((2**31)-1).
right, and since none of this mentions anything about being cryptographically secure, chances are that it is not. mike _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
