[490] in Kerberos
Re: random_key()
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Ted Anderson)
Fri Sep 2 16:00:38 1988
From: Ted Anderson <ota+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
To: Jennifer Steiner <steiner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: Mike Kazar <kazar+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>,
In-Reply-To: <8809021415.AA12823@BACH.MIT.EDU>
We're going to use an encryption based scheme for generating keys also. The
simplest fix to the existing random_keys is to move the code that calls
srandom(seed) into another function and call it just once. Then calling
random() twice and fixing up the key parity is all random_key needs to do.