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Re: [Lynx-dev] mozilla's take on arc4random
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Thorsten Glaser |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] mozilla's take on arc4random |
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Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:12:02 +0000 (UTC) |
David Woolley dixit:
> The MIME requirements can, I believe, be met by having no internal state, and
> simply searching for a string that does not appear in any of the parts.
That too ☺
>> This is irrelevant for Lynx, as it does not do Javascript.
>
> The original requirement is not irrelevant to Lynx, as Lynx can generate MIME
> multipart form submissions.
Hm true. It could of course use a (P)RNG as starting point for
the search, or somesuch. Or, just take some (random?) substring
and increment a byte by one, or so.
//mirabilos
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seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.”
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