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Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator
From: |
Eduardo Bustamante |
Subject: |
Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:41:24 -0800 |
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 6:08 PM Ole Tange <tange@gnu.org> wrote:
(...)
> But your comment actually emphasizes my point: We _will_ have users
> who are naive enough to use $RANDOM in ways you and I would not do,
> because we know it is unsafe.
>
> Let's make those usages a little safer.
You know no one is stopping you from submitting a patch to actually
fix the documentation right? (or maybe, you know, submitting an actual
working patch to change the random generator, not just drop some
irrelevant code snippet you got from Wikipedia).
> And then we simply wait for Shellshock to happen.
Also, comparing this to shellshock is a huge strawman. Please don't do
that :), we all know better than that.
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Ole Tange, 2018/12/02
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Eduardo Bustamante, 2018/12/02
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Chet Ramey, 2018/12/03
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Greg Wooledge, 2018/12/03
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Ole Tange, 2018/12/03
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Chet Ramey, 2018/12/03
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Ole Tange, 2018/12/15
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator,
Eduardo Bustamante <=
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Ole Tange, 2018/12/28
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Chet Ramey, 2018/12/31
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Chet Ramey, 2018/12/17