On 8/2/13 8:19 AM, "Martin Wilck" <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 08/02/2013 02:46 PM, Francis Moreau wrote:
>
>>Please tell me if you can find something suspicous.
>
>The spec says that the VD GUID consists of the vendor ID ("LSI " in
>your case), controller type (the controller's PCI ID,
>8086:1d60:0000:0000), the 4-byte time stamp, and a "random number"
>(0000 1450). Strangely, I also have an LSI fake RAID and it uses the
>same random number. It even generated the same number through several
>RAID creations. Seems to be a truly strange random number generator :-)
>
Perhaps the author reads xkcd and wrote something similar to the following:
int getRandomNumber()
{
return 0x1450; // chosen by fair dice roll.
// guaranteed to be random.
}
http://xkcd.com/221/
Sam
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