That came out a bit confused, it's actually two questions, the call to od -vAn -N8 -tu8 /dev/urandom should eliminate the trap of not generating a random seed?
And then I hope rand generates a sequence with a very big period. Put together I should have truly random situation in the sense that I avoid flaw #3 and #4 as described here: http://www.lauradhamilton.com/random-lessons-online-poker-exploit or? On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Henrik Sarvell <hsarv...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I use od -vAn -N8 -tu8 /dev/urandom to generate a really, really big > truly random number and then use that number with seed, then subsequent > calls to rand should generate a sequence with a very very big period. > > Are those correct assumptions? > > >
