
14 May
2009
14 May
'09
1:56 p.m.
Hello everybody, I like the flexibility boost::random offers. However, a severe drawback of the current library is that it does not offer a safe way of generating seeds. Of course the methods for providing this feature would vary quite a lot across platforms (e.g. on some systems its safe to use /dev/random, on some it is not). However, as the library is currently, many users will resort to ad-hoc or unsafe seeding methods instead of implementing a safe solution themselves. Hence, is a cross-platform secure seeding feature planned for boost::random in the future? Thanks, Sebastian