From: Fabrice ILPONSE <fabrice AT asim DOT lip6 DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: Random numbers aren't random - ???
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 18:23:27 +0200
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Florian Janoschek wrote:
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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 think srandom is to be use with random.
	for rand() use srand


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