Hi Sebastian,

I guess this is the tribute we have to pay for the NSA :) I committed the patch 
to SVN.

Thanks

Oliver

> Gesendet: Freitag, 13. September 2013 um 08:34 Uhr
> Von: "Sebastian Reitenbach" <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: [Qlandkartegt-users] use arc4random when available
>
> Hi,
> 
> attached patch uses arc4random instead of rand/srand on systems where 
> available.
> As far as I know the random numbers used in qlgt are only for randomly 
> choosing some colors for lines,
> so not really security related problem due to choosing weak random numbers, 
> and colors for lines ;)
> Anyways on OpenBSD -current now when linking, warnings are shown, telling me 
> that using
> rand, random and friends is generally not a good choice.
> 
> I added the attached patch when updating QLGT to 1.7.3 in the OpenBSD ports 
> tree, and should
> work on all systems that have arc4random available. Could it be considered to 
> be included
> to the main QLGT source?
> 
> cheers,
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