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Bug #16

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rand needs to be seeded when used in the engine

Added by Will Metcalf over 14 years ago. Updated about 14 years ago.

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rand needs to be seeded when used here...
Security 'rand' is a poor random number generator flow.c 388
Security 'rand' is a poor random number generator defrag.c 942

normally people just seed with a timestamp but the article below suggests seeding with a hash of the timestamp.

http://www.eternallyconfuzzled.com/arts/jsw_art_rand.aspx


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