Skip to content
Blame History Permalink
  • Sebastian Wilhelmi's avatar
    Use /dev/urandom, as it doesn't block, which /dev/random might do. Do not · e435032d
    Sebastian Wilhelmi authored 
    
1999-07-23  Sebastian Wilhelmi  <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>

	* grand.c (g_rand_new): Use /dev/urandom, as it doesn't block,
	which /dev/random might do. Do not XOR the time, when getting the
	seed form /dev/urandom, as this is good itself. Prevent the
	initial seed from being zero, which causes the PRNG to produce
	only zeros. Hints from Colin Plumb <colin@pgp.com>.
    e435032d