Re: Getting randomic integers

[Wolfgang Pupp <wolfgang.pupp@...>]

2010/1/17 Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com>
>
> Wolfgang Pupp <wolfgang.pupp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What I want is essentially a "getrandomseed", which can
> > be used for resuming the generation of random numbers later,
> > with perfectly predictable output.
>
> You can do this with a cryptographic hash.  For each "number" you want
> out, hash together your seed and an index. [...]

Thanks for the quick reply! This is exactly what i need, and even better than
what I had in mind :)

Considering how much i thought about this, I ought to ask such questions
more often :)