On 7 February 2010 c. 21:59:33 Brad Tilley wrote:
> I wrote a small cpp application to generate randomish passwords. It
> compiles and runs OK on OpenBSD, however, it does not seem to create
> random strings (the first and last chars seldom ever change, etc). The
> same code compiles and runs on Linux and Windows and *does* produce
> randomish strings (no often repeating chars). The source code is small
> and is contained in a single file. I placed it here along with
> binaries for OpenBSD and Windows:
>
> http://16systems.com/downloads
>
> I could be doing something wrong. I've checked the source code several
> times but nothing obvious stands out. I'll try a gcc compiler from
> ports tomorrow to see if that makes a difference. Until then, I
> thought I'd post to tech. Can anyone tell if I've made an error in the
> source code?
Yes, there is an error. Use random(3), as suggested in the rand(3).
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Vadim Zhukov
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