Re: [Boost-users] Seeding boost::mt19937 with bytes from CryptoGenRandom

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Seeding boost::mt19937 with bytes from CryptoGenRandom
From: Ovanes Markarian (om_boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-11 07:08:38

Steven,

at first this solution seemed to me pretty cool. As far as I understand seed
will contain some value from stack. The only question is how probable is it,
that seed is always initialized with a different value?

Thanks,
Ovanes

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> AMDG
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> uint64_t seed;
> memcpy(&seed, &randomBytes[0], sizeof(seed));
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>