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- Subject: Re: Real-World Impact of Hash DoS in Lua
- From: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@...>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:23:12 +0100
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:11 PM, William Ahern
<william@25thandclement.com> wrote:
> rand() is anything but random. Likewise for random(). They're extremely
> predictable. You're going to have to go platform specific. For OpenBSD or OS
> X, for example, use arc4random(). For Linux use sysctl() and mib[] = {
> CTL_KERN, KERN_RANDOM, RANDOM_UUID }.
Please don't assume Linux == glibc. Alpine Linux has arc4random() too.
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Natanael Copa
