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SEI CERT Oracle Coding Standard for Java
2 Rules
Rule 49. Miscellaneous (MSC)
MSC02-J. Generate strong random numbers
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MSC02-J. Generate strong random numbers
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Georgios Katsis
Nov 07, 2008
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MSC50-CPP. Do not use std::rand() for generating pseudorandom numbers
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