Re: Re: Crypt salts not random.. (fwd)
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Sun, 29 Apr 2001 11:57:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Crypt salts not random.. (fwd) | ||
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At 01:55 PM 4/29/2001 +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote:
At 13:58 29/4/2001, Andi Gutmans wrote:Well as it was initialized in MINIT it is initialized *exactly* at the same time for all apache children. Therefore, the numbers returned by each child are the same.The seed was initialized in MINIT before the children forked. So what happened was that the children started returning the same random numbers.It doesn't really matter where it was initialized, but rather, when it was initialized...
Jani - are you getting the same values after 5 reloads? Or any chance you're getting the same value if you're reloading very quickly, at the same second?Andi