nisse at lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes: There's gmp_randseed. I guess we could use that. Why 6 bytes (48 bits), and not, e.g., 64 bits? Birthday paradoxical considerations; sqrt(2^48) = 2^24 is a large enough number to practically make all random seeds unique. -- Torbjörn Please encrypt, key id 0xC8601622