Keith Thompson writes:
> Another problem is predictability. If an observer knows, or can
> guess, when the program started, he can anticipate the stream of
> random numbers it's going to use. For cryptographic applications,
> this is a fatal flaw. For other applications, it might not matter.

Yes. If predictability is a problem, some of my user input and
"hopefully random" suggestions may be worse than useless - they may
enable a user to _force_ a particular seed.

--
Hallvard