Re: [Boost-users] [Random] Good Truly-Random Seed

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Random] Good Truly-Random Seed
From: Marius (letto2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-21 13:47:13

On Wednesday 21 April 2010 16:31:21 Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> > May I please know what do you guys use as you "good truly-random seed"?
> 
> I use /dev/random

May I suggest that boost should have a cross-platform function to so this.
time(NULL) is not random.

A good hack would be xoring many "random" numbers that you can get:
-time(NULL)
-pid
-the values fo uninitialised variables 
whatever you can think of