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DateThu, 27 Jan 2005 20:43:30 +0100
FromJulien TINNES <>
SubjectRe: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer
Not very important but ((get_random_int() % 4096) << 4) could be 
optimized into get_random_int() & 0xFFF0. Because 4096 is a power of 2 
you won't loose any entropy by doing  & 0xFFF instead of %4096

Regards,

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