Re: setting random seed generator under Windows NT

[Ulf Moeller]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:02:43AM +0530, Amit Chopra wrote:
 
> srand((unsigned)(time(NULL))); //C Runtime Function
>       seed[i] = rand();     //C Runtime function
 
> Can somebody tell me if this method of seeding the RNG secure enough?

It is not. rand() was never meant to be a cryptographic RNG.

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