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Originally Posted by Heartless
You might want to read Knuth and then reconsider whether a "random" number is simple or not.
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Im assuming they are using perls rand() funct , which seeds on first use if not done already. Its hard to mess up if you are using a single function call without deliberately sabotaging your own efforts by reseeding
http://perl.active-venture.com/pod/func/srand.html
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Most programs won't even call srand() at all, except those that need a cryptographically-strong starting point rather than the generally acceptable default, which is based on time of day, process ID, and memory allocation, or the /dev/urandom device, if available.
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On the servers, /dev/urandom should be available - plus the process id and memory allocation states should not be externally available to compromise the entropy pool