Hi Alan, Marek.
>> More and more programs (eg CGI-Scripts) use the PID as
>> pseudo-random number. As this isn't really random and easily
>> guessed from the outside (esp. with daemons loaded while
>> booting) it's a little bit troublesome.
One simple fix I've seen (and used myself on occasion) is to do the
following in a bash CGI script - this was to generate a number in the
range 1 to 75:
Q> SEED=`date "+75%S $PID*75%%p" | dc`
Whilst the individual components may be simple to guess, the result
usually isn't.
Best wishes from Riley.
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