Seed Property

The seed.

Syntax

ezrandcontrol.Seed[=string]

This property specifies the seed. This value is optional. If not specified and a seed is required the control will use the current time.

Seed Notes

When Algorithm is set to 0 (raISAAC) the control uses the leftmost 256 bytes.
When Algorithm is set to 1 (raMSCryptoAPI) the seed is ignored.
When Algorithm is set to 2 (raPlatform) the control uses the leftmost 4 bytes.
When Algorithm is set to 3 (raSecurePlatform) in .NET the seed is ignored. The seed is applicable in Java.

To read or write binary data to the property, a Variant (Byte Array) version is provided in .SeedB.

Binary String