On 03/03/2013 12:41 PM, jerro wrote:
You can solve this by using /dev/urandom instead, as Jerome have said already.
Yes, but this is less trustworthy from a randomness point of view. I might use it personally for something, but I wouldn't want to use it as the basis of a supposedly trustworthy random seed.
A bit more looking around pointed me at the Fortuna algorithm, which might be worth looking into:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna_%28PRNG%29
There's CryptGenRandom.
Thanks. :-) Not that I use Windows for simulation, but any addition or change to Phobos needs to support it.
