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-rw-r--r--lisp/gnus/ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--lisp/gnus/gnus-sync.el2
-rw-r--r--lisp/gnus/message.el5
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog b/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
index b3aeb96e9fe..a4e3d9bde2b 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2012-09-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ Better seeds for (random).
+ * gnus-sync.el (gnus-sync-lesync-setup):
+ * message.el (message-canlock-generate, message-unique-id):
+ Change (random t) to (random), now that the latter is more random.
+
2012-08-31 Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
* auth-source.el (auth-sources): Fix macos keychain access.
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-sync.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-sync.el
index 15d94810c3a..ca8662ff936 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-sync.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-sync.el
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ When SALT is nil, a random one will be generated using `random'."
(security-object (concat url "/_security"))
(user-record `((names . [,user]) (roles . [])))
(couch-user-name (format "org.couchdb.user:%s" user))
- (salt (or salt (sha1 (format "%s" (random t)))))
+ (salt (or salt (sha1 (format "%s" (random)))))
(couch-user-record
`((_id . ,couch-user-name)
(type . user)
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/message.el b/lisp/gnus/message.el
index 8fd89b1742c..18088423eb0 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/message.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/message.el
@@ -4820,9 +4820,7 @@ Do not use this for anything important, it is cryptographically weak."
(require 'sha1)
(let (sha1-maximum-internal-length)
(sha1 (concat (message-unique-id)
- (format "%x%x%x" (random)
- (progn (random t) (random))
- (random))
+ (format "%x%x%x" (random) (random) (random))
(prin1-to-string (recent-keys))
(prin1-to-string (garbage-collect))))))
@@ -5525,7 +5523,6 @@ In posting styles use `(\"Expires\" (make-expires-date 30))'."
;; You might for example insert a "." somewhere (not next to another dot
;; or string boundary), or modify the "fsf" string.
(defun message-unique-id ()
- (random t)
;; Don't use microseconds from (current-time), they may be unsupported.
;; Instead we use this randomly inited counter.
(setq message-unique-id-char