[fpc-pascal] Why is Random(255) some 529x slower compared to Delphi 7?

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com
Fri Dec 9 09:42:12 CET 2011


On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't write this encryption code, I merely debugged why the unit
> tests for this unit took so long to complete, compared to under
> Delphi.

It is specifically written in the Delphi documentation that Random
should not be utilized for encryption...

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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho



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