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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Random] Good Truly-Random Seed
From: Hossein Haeri (powerprogman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-21 19:08:13

Dear peterbarnabus,

> In many cases it is sufficient to use the time

That's not enough for me.

> If you are running your program many times and need a new
> seed each time, then another strategy could be to save the
> state of your random generator when you have finished and
> use that state to initialise your program for the next run.

This might do. I need to check.

> If this is no good, you need hardware random number
> generators, of which there are many. You could also have a
> look at random.org.

Interesting website but that's not available as a piece of software usable directly on every machine. The application I am writing currently needs to be a standalone program runnable on every Windows.

Cheers,
--Hossein