[PATCH v3] Seed random generator in main()

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:58:37AM -0400, Simo wrote:
> Well for me it meant "not using our own PRNG", so yeah we can use krb5
> or openssl or what you have, as long as we use something that is vetted
> an updated by people that know what they are doing and consider good
> random number generation as one of their top priorities.

On BSDs I would consider the system arc4random functions in that
league. At least that's what all the documentation suggests. Please
correct me if I'm wrong.

On Linux we could always use urandom, right. Other systems might require
other things.

Volker

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