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Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

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  Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-12-31 14:11 -0500

#15021 — Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

On 12/28/18 4:24 AM, Ole Tange wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 6:41 AM Eduardo Bustamante <dualbus@gmail.com> wrote:
> :
>> You know no one is stopping you from submitting a patch to actually
>> fix the documentation right? (or maybe, you know, submitting an actual
>> working patch to change the random generator, not just drop some
>> irrelevant code snippet you got from Wikipedia).
> 
> Patch attached.

Thanks for the patch. I'll take a look after I release bash-5.0. One
question: can you reproduce the same random sequence by using the same
seed? That's for backwards compatibility, even if the sequences themselves
differ.

Chet
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