On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Nicholas Clark <n...@ccl4.org> wrote:
> OK, this is a bit of guessing, and I would like to think that I've guessed > wrongly because someone else *should* have hit this before... > You'd be surprised. Verifying randomness is fairly tricky... and Perl 3 went through this on a bunch of platforms where the random bits needed to be tuned per platform (before there was any sort of standardization between unixlikes, not to mention Windows, VMS, ...). Nobody noticed for several years that the randbits were wrong on various platforms --- and not all of those platforms were obscure. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
