On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Thomas Hallaran wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Liu Tao wrote: > seed your random number generator like so: > > srand(time(NULL)); > > before calling random. That is an extraordinarily bad idea. Any person will be able to guess the sequence of random numbers simply by guessing the time at which your program was started. Use random data to seed the psuedo-random number generator. Get that data from /dev/random or /dev/urandom -jwb