docs/101564: man 4 random has a URL as reference

waldeck at hk2.uwaterloo.ca waldeck at hk2.uwaterloo.ca
Sat Oct 14 09:30:33 UTC 2006


The following reply was made to PR docs/101564; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: waldeck at hk2.uwaterloo.ca
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Subject: Re: docs/101564: man 4 random has a URL as reference
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 05:21:11 -0400 (EDT)

 Hi,
 
 > Synopsis: man 4 random has a URL as reference
 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: remko
 > State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 13 14:16:30 UTC 2006
 > State-Changed-Why: 
 > The URL is required to understand the Yarrow protocol, we cannot remove
 > that eventhough it requires internet access for this. Closing the PR.
 > Facilitated by: Snow B.V.
 
 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=101564
 
 Did you read the last sentence in my PR?
 
 >> Scheiers paper explains the algoritm but does not consider the meaning to the variables.
 
 This is still true!
 
 Dr. Markus Waldeck



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