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Re: [Help-bash] How random is $RANDOM?
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: [Help-bash] How random is $RANDOM? |
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Thu, 9 May 2019 09:41:50 -0400 |
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On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 03:31:20PM +0200, Pierre Gaston wrote:
> On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 3:12 PM Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > No. I don’t want to call any external program. I want to stay with the
> > shell.
> >
> Most of the shell scripts end up calling external programs but ok.
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> There was a long discussion about subject recently please search "$RANDOM
> not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number" in bug-bash
Looks like started in November.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2018-11/msg00084.html
Then it continued for a couple months.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2018-12/msg00002.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-01/msg00137.html