From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-11-13T21:59:56+09:00
Subject: Re: External entropy pool for random number generator

Hi,

In message "Re: External entropy pool for random number generator"
    on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:25:13 +0900, "Kirill Shutemov" <k.shutemov@gmail.com> writes:
|> the former is shorter indeed.  But it seems more difficult to read the
|> author's intention.  Is this useful in cryptography field?
|It allow you specify entropy pool once(in platform specific way) and
|use it anywhere.

Can you elaborate how much it is useful in general enough to make it
built in?  The questions I have are

  * why do we need to call srand every time?
  * why do we need to pull a value from entropy pool every time?
  * do we really need to enhance rand() to depend on
    platform specific feature (/dev/random)?

							matz.