Re: rand() is broken

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:41 PM -0800 2003/02/02, Terry Lambert wrote:

 Donald Knuth seemed to like them well enough to publish the
 algorithm, as part of his discussion on randomness.  He *didn't*
 publish RC4, in that same discussion.

RC stands for Ron's Code. This stuff came after the work that Diffie Hellman did, for which the patent expired a little while ago. Did RC4 even exist at the time that Don published that book?

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GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+
!w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++)
tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)


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