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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Random] Good Truly-Random Seed
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-21 13:55:38

AMDG

Marius wrote:
> 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

boost::random_device should work starting in Boost 1.43.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe