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Title:	MSC51-CPP. Ensure your random number generator is properly seeded
Author:	Elpiniki Tsakalaki	Oct 28, 2008
Last Changed by:	Jill Britton	Jun 30, 2022
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/-ns-BQ
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SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard (1)     Page: MSC50-CPP. Do not use std::rand() for generating pseudorandom numbers

Parent Page     Page: Rule 49. Miscellaneous (MSC)

• review-dms
• nptc
• review
• rule
• no-autodetect
• review-ajb
• cwe-337
• msc
• cwe-330
• cwe-327
• nptc-intent

Time	Editor
Jun 30, 2022 11:19	Jill Britton	View Changes
May 19, 2022 10:59	Jon O'Donnell	View Changes
Jun 25, 2021 05:13	Svyatoslav Razmyslov	View Changes
Apr 26, 2021 06:17	Jill Britton	View Changes
Apr 21, 2021 04:36	Jill Britton

External Links (15)
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/330.html
    https://pvs-studio.com/en/docs/warnings/v1057/
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/327.html
    https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/cplusp…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/cplusplus/Polys…
    web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2008-1637
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcmsc51cpp.…
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    cwe.mitre.org/
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/337.html
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/pages/viewpage…

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