<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Robby Findler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Does this mean that mzscheme should not be using the current seconds<br>
to initialize the random seed?<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>Other languages I have used (Perl, C#, Java, etc) also default to using current seconds, but allow you to change the seed manually. <br><br>They also advised not to use PRNG for cryptographic purposes in the docs, and provide other means of obtaining cryptographic random number. <br>
<br>If PLT has all of the above, IMHO it would be a developer's responsibility to ensure their app is secure.<br><br>Cheers,<br>yc<br><br><br></div></div>