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Re: Map-related deja-vu

From: Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>
To: mskala at ansuz dot sooke dot bc dot ca
Cc: Lincoln Peters <sampln at sbcglobal dot net>, Xconq list <xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:26:28 -0600
Subject: Re: Map-related deja-vu
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0409302009550.8792-100000@diamond.ansuz.sooke.bc.ca>

mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:

Is this a problem?  If so, we could easily put in a better seeding rule
and/or a better random number generator.

As I recall from looking at the 'util.c' code once upon a time, Xconq uses a simple LCRNG. If we wanted something with a much longer cycle length, we could go for a Mersenne Twister or some such. Of course, that would not be suitable for cryptographic work, but neither is the current one.

But, better seeding would probably be a good first step.

Eric

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