On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:40 +0100, "Otto Moerbeek" <o...@drijf.net> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 03:39:25PM -0500, Brad Tilley wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:32 +0100, "Otto Moerbeek" <o...@drijf.net> wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 12:26:43PM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: > > > > > > > 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
That's OK, my skin is thick. Thanks for the feedback. I had some older fltk code there initially that behaves in a similar fashion (only it has a GUI). It seems some of you may have seen that for some reason. Caching I guess. Brad
