Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)

[Yuri Khan]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 at 19:55, Michael Heerdegen
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> > In Emacs, as far as I can tell, best case, the random
> > seed is 48 bits.
>
> Is the random number generator able to use more than 48 bits of entropy?

Not as far as I can tell from srand48(3).

This pseudo-random number generator is not designed to be used for
password generation and cryptography. It’s okay for simulations,
games, network retry delays, this kind of things.