Problem with gmp_randinit_set

Niels Möller nisse at lysator.liu.se
Fri Feb 17 17:51:25 UTC 2017


Pedro Gimeno <gmpdiscuss at formauri.es> writes:

> The problem is that it wouldn't be a good idea to apply that patch to
> stable versions, because it causes the sequences to be different.

I think we should try to avoid that. 

It shouldn't be too hard to rewrite randseed_mt to use mpn_powm, right?
Which probably didn't exist when the original version was written. 

Regards,
/Niels

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