Am Freitag 11 Mai 2012, 23:29:47 schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
Dear Michael Walle,
In message 201205112320.15462.michael@walle.cc you wrote:
This is inconsequent. Either we assume that the user will seed srand(), then y should not be initialized at all, so it goes to the BSS segment and does not waste space in the binary image. Or we want to deal with cases where the user doesn call srand(), and then we should provide a bit better than such a static initialization.
Again, i wanted to stick with the regular rand() srand() semantics.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/rand.html "If rand() is called before any calls to srand() are made, the same sequence shall be generated as when srand() is first called with a seed value of 1."
Good point.
But then y should be initialized as 1 ?
I'm no crypto expert, so i sticked with the values/examples from the cited paper. But i guess it shouldn't make any difference, i'll change it to 1.