>Technically this doesn't prove that this random problem is in fact not a >random problem, but a deterministic one ;-). >But I concur that it doesn't look good.
Yes. It makes it a bit hard writing a test case... :) > Have people been counting on the random generator of Pike to be > generating reproducible sequences? Yes, but not that one, I think. There are other methods under Crypto that are used when it's supposed to be real or semi-real random. > If not, then we might overhaul the generator to simply use as much > bits per call as is needed to generate up to the maximum requested. Or just kick in the bignum generator for >INT32 for now, but I'm not sure what the problem is.
