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RAND() not very random
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Catégorie:
Autre
Versions des environnements
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Divers
Thread ID:
01155607
Message ID:
01157585
Vues:
26
Hi again, Terry. Nice to hear from you again.

>From my IT edumication I recall that there (were) very few foolproof
>rand. gen's. Word on the street is not to trust RAND().


As I stated in a previous posting, I'm hoping that the VFP folks
at Microsoft decide to support the hardware generators that are
on a lot of the newer boards. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't
some of the newer processors also sporting around with hardware
generators on chip?

Hmmmm. REALLY dumb idea. Get folks to start turning on their processor
IDs. Then use the MAC address XORed with the processor ID, and then
tag on a datetime timestamp. Microsoft and the NSA would surely love
it if everyone turned on their processor IDs. NOTE! BIG GRIN; JUST
JOKING; and this is a DUMB IDEA :^) :^).

Later,

Randall
--
Randall Jouett
Amateur/Ham Radio: AB5NI
I eat spaghetti code out of a bit bucket while sitting at a hash table! Someone
asked me if I needed salt, and I said, "I'm not into encryption." :^)
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