Random number seeding

[afeld]

Do you think #srand should be called when the library is loaded to create a new random seed?

(I coincidentally was writing an alphanumeric generator today to create random passwords, and happened to come across your gem when looking at the "New Gems" on rubygems.org.)

[dmke]

Actually, rand will call srand:

This is also the behavior if Kernel::rand is called without previously calling srand, but without the sequence.

For testing purposes, it might be useful to pass a seed into the constructor. But I don't think, this will enhance the security of the generated passwords...

--Dominik