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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KShred compile troubles.
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-05-31 20:05:43
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On Wed, 31 May 2000, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> > > > /dev/random is stronger.
> > >
> > > Forget what I said. Listen to Dirk :-)
> >
> > ;-)... I thought /dev/random wasn't portable ?
>
> You're right... wouldn't it make more sense to have a parameter in
> KApplication::random that will attempt to use /dev/random (or similar)
> if it exists?

No.. i don't want to do that. You only need that for crypto stuff and when 
you make crypto stuff you want to know exactly what is going on. You don't 
want to depend on a function provided by some KDE developers (e.g. me) who 
have no clue about crypto.

Cheers,
Waldo

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