Enigma is using bad random numbers

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blub Send message Joined: 17 May 14 Posts: 7 Credit: 1,148,207 RAC: 0	Message 3617 - Posted: 20 Oct 2015, 16:15:00 UTC just found this great line of code in the Enigma source: i = rand() % (count+1); 1: this does not produce a unifor distribution in [0:count] 2: rand produces very poor output ID: 3617 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

numbermaniac Send message Joined: 28 Mar 14 Posts: 4 Credit: 11,545 RAC: 0	Message 3631 - Posted: 25 Oct 2015, 23:58:50 UTC - in response to Message 3617. This is more like finding the modulus of randomly generated numbers. I'm not sure how the rest of this works, but that doesn't look too bad... ID: 3631 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote