[39642] in Cypherpunks
Re: "random" number seeds vs. Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Wed Sep 20 18:19:18 1995
From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
To: karlton@netscape.com (Phil Karlton)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:20:52 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <43psn2$6ug@tera.mcom.com> from "Phil Karlton" at Sep 20, 95 08:14:26 pm
> weeks ago. The time spent on patching the current release will not
> all go to waste, but it has cut down on my limited opportunities to
> sleep.
>
> For those that curious: being responsible for helping to fix a bug that
> is getting front page coverage in major newspapers is not nearly as
> much fun as it sounds.
>
This looks really good. I only wish your PR people wouldn't
spout the garbage that they do.
In terms of your amounts of sleep-- If netscape had waited a
month before releasing the patch it would not have been doing any
worse than most OS vendors. Netscape is to be congratulated on the
quick response.
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