On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 03:39:25PM -0500, Brad Tilley wrote:
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> On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:32 +0100, "Otto Moerbeek" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 12:26:43PM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote:
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> > > On Sunday, February 7, 2010, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > > > That is still wrong for this purpose. Although random(3) is a better
> > > > random number generator than rand, is still a cryptographic weak
> > > > generator.
> > > >
> > > > Better use arc4random()
> > >
> > > Or rather, since he needs to reduce
> > > the range, use arc4random_uniform()
> > >
> > > (That C++ made me cry. Iterating across a map<> to convert an integer
> > > in the range 1..56 to a character?!? If only C++ had a datastructure
> > > which gave O(1) lookup for small indexes, like an array does in C.)
> > >
> > > Philip Guenther
> >
> > I glanced at that code and there are some real gems there. Like a new
> > way of adding 8 to a number in the passwd() function.
> >
> > -Otto
>
> Come on guys. It works... not idiomatic, but it does the job. Are you guys
> looking at this: http://16systems.com/downloads/source.cpp
Sorry, but if you post here, you get comments based on our criteria.
-Otto
