Marcel Keller <mkel...@cs.au.dk> writes: > Thomas P Jakobsen wrote: > >> If not, I guess we'll have to use some external package (openssl?) or >> implement our own algorithm. > > viff.util.rand is used to make all randomness replayable, which > already helped me to find bugs triggered by certain randomness. I > would like to have this feature also in the future, therefore I would > vote against a random number generator using noise not only to > generate a seed.
Right, but note that the seed is not enough to ensure deterministic output because of jitter in the network. > If the environment variable VIFF_SEED is set to the empty string, VIFF > already uses /dev/urandom by using random.SystemRandom for random > number generation. This possibility is not documented however. It's documented in the final paragraph here: http://viff.dk/doc/util.html#viff.util.rand I will of course agree that it could be made more explicit :-) -- Martin Geisler Mercurial links: http://mercurial.ch/
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