The seed was initialized in MINIT before the children forked. So what
happened was that the children started returning the same random numbers.
Andi
At 12:52 PM 4/29/2001 +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>How did you arrive to the conclusion that the current crypt() salts are
>not random?
>
>
>At 11:27 29/4/2001, Jani Taskinen wrote:
>
>>Well, what's the deal with this? Sascha?
>>
>>--Jani
>>
>>
>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:05:08 +0200
>>From: Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: Jani Taskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: Crypt salts not random..
>>
>>At 06:17 AM 4/28/2001 +0200, Jani Taskinen wrote:
>>
>> >One thing I had in my mind about these random numbers..
>> >Why don't we use the seedMT() and randomMT() funcs everywhere
>> >instead of the system provided ones? If I have understood
>> >correctly these would give more random numbers and are even
>> >faster than any of the system provided ones? Or have I missed
>> >some important thing here? :)
>>
>>I really don't know this random stuff too well. It looks to me as if we
>>could use the MT stuff but I'm not sure what the considerations are.
>>
>>Probably Sascha Schumann has a better idea. I also suggest php-dev :)
>>Andi
>>
>>
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