On 08/14/2015 04:38 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
It seeds itself with "entropy" from the intervals between LAN packets,
intervals between typed characters and so on.
Unfortunately "Randomize" (in Linux in "System") just does
randseed:=longint(Fptime(nil));
if it would use /dev/urandom, the rand() would be as unpredictable as
/dev/urandom unless you fetch more more than some 2 Gig numbers
But I suppose you can set randseed in user code, as well, if you want to.
-Michael
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