The author told me it gets the random seed from the system /dev/urandom
or probably a Perl internal.
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> Probability of duplicating the same random generated string. If
> probability is high, then there's a high chance of duplicating the
> string.
oic, why not random the *patterns*? random within the random.
but i guess this author is using the datetime as its random seed.
fooler.
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