In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated
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commit 791f8f9aa5a989a2ccf7f9fae40f68bf65f86f9b
Author: Tony Cook <t...@develop-help.com>
Date: Mon Sep 16 14:13:53 2013 +1000
clarify that the new rand() isn't cryptographically secure
so people won't read too much into the change
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Summary of changes:
pod/perldelta.pod | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 4b67b20..7ba1c03 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ to platform, from the 15 bits of rand() on Windows to 48-bits
on POSIX
platforms such as Linux with drand48().
Perl now uses its own internal drand48() implementation on all platforms.
-[perl #115928]
+This does not make perl's rand() cryptographically secure. [perl #115928]
=head2 Better 64-bit support
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