Re: [Lynx-dev] predictable PRNG used

[Michael S. Gilbert]

On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 13:08:38 +0000 (UTC) Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> If arc4random(3) is available¹, lynx uses it. I sent in a patch
> for that years ago. Otherwise, there is no good self-seeding SRNG
> available in the standards, so it will use lrand48(3) instead²,
> with a fallback to rand(3) like everyone else.

i'm triaging this issue for linux, and i don't believe that it has an
arc4random implementation.  so this would mean that lynx is using the
very insecure linear congruential algorithm and is thus affected by
this issue?

mike