From: "Florian Janoschek" <FJanoschek AT donau DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Random numbers aren't random - ???
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 16:56:26 +0200
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Hello,

I'm just writing a little encryption program which sould be able to create
its own random passwords. The code is something like that:

srandom(biostime(0, 0)); // DOS-ticks are used as seed value
unsigned char C = (rand() %  255) + 1; // no null-characters

I can't find any errors in this 2 lines, but the program returns everytime
the same password.

Perhaps I should use a different source for my seed value, but why and what?

BTW: As I checked, biostime() works quiet well, the bug must be somewhere
else...

Thanks.

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Best regards,
Florian Janoschek
http://blubisoftware.notrix.de