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Commit f0211d954c055f21733bad7c0c5357b99f6c7b80

Authored by Jay Berkenbilt
1 parent 34097d6c

use a simpler seed for the random number generator 


git-svn-id: svn+q:///qpdf/trunk@821 71b93d88-0707-0410-a8cf-f5a4172ac649
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libqpdf/Pl_AES_PDF.cc
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1 1 #include <qpdf/Pl_AES_PDF.hh>
2 2 #include <qpdf/QUtil.hh>
3   -#include <qpdf/MD5.hh>
4 3 #include <cstring>
5 4 #include <assert.h>
6 5 #include <stdexcept>
... ... @@ -111,17 +110,10 @@ Pl_AES_PDF::initializeVector()
111 110 static bool seeded_random = false;
112 111 if (! seeded_random)
113 112 {
114   - std::string seed_str;
115   - seed_str += QUtil::int_to_string((int)QUtil::get_current_time());
116   - seed_str += " QPDF aes random";
117   - MD5 m;
118   - m.encodeString(seed_str.c_str());
119   - MD5::Digest digest;
120   - m.digest(digest);
121   - assert(sizeof(digest) >= sizeof(unsigned int));
122   - unsigned int seed;
123   - memcpy((void*)(&seed), digest, sizeof(unsigned int));
124   - srandom(seed);
  113 + // Seed the random number generator with something simple, but
  114 + // just to be interesting, don't use the unmodified current
  115 + // time....
  116 + srandom((int)QUtil::get_current_time() ^ 0xcccc);
125 117 seeded_random = true;
126 118 }
127 119 for (unsigned int i = 0; i < this->buf_size; ++i)
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