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
Hi Henrik,
od -vAn -N8 -tu8 /dev/urandom should eliminate the trap of not generating a
random seed?
You don't need to call 'od' for that. Simply do
: (in /dev/urandom (rd 20))
- 384093524694620556071320789767590963480707536932
In praxis, (rd 8) or (rd 12) should be enough, I think:
Thanks Alex for the clarification, 2**64 should be enough :-)
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.dewrote:
Hi Henrik,
od -vAn -N8 -tu8 /dev/urandom should eliminate the trap of not
generating a
random seed?
You don't need to call 'od' for that. Simply do
