Re: Bug in random32.c: all-zero outputs with probability 1/2^32, other seeding bugs

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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Cc: Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <lloyd@...>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@...>, <netdev@...>
Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 11:22 pm

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 17:34 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

I did look at it, and it looks reasonable. So:

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

Stephen Hemminger is responsible for the original code, I believe. I've
been tempted to slurp this functionality into random.c but keep getting
side-tracked into theoretical investigations of better functions, as I'm
not a big fan of the current one from either a performance or strength
perspective.

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Re: Bug in random32.c: all-zero outputs with probability 1/2..., Matt Mackall, (Tue Jul 1, 11:22 pm)
Re: Bug in random32.c: all-zero outputs with probability 1/2..., Stephen Hemminger, (Wed Jul 2, 12:40 pm)