Of the use of unpredictableSeed

sarn via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Mar 6 14:19:40 PST 2017


On Monday, 6 March 2017 at 10:12:09 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Excuse me if I'm asking a trivial question. Why not just seed 
> it from /dev/urandom? (or equivalent on non-Linux platforms. I 
> know at least Windows has an equivalent).
>
> Shachar

One reason is that /dev/urandom isn't always available, e.g., in 
a chroot.  Sure, these are corner cases, but it's annoying when 
stuff like this doesn't "just work".


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