From 7d9ff152b0861bb9eedba5910cd1eac3566a871c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jsteube <jens.steube@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:08:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix random rules generator seeding

---
 src/hashcat.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/hashcat.c b/src/hashcat.c
index a4e17609c..a9d6c790e 100644
--- a/src/hashcat.c
+++ b/src/hashcat.c
@@ -369,15 +369,6 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
     set_cpu_affinity (user_options->cpu_affinity);
   }
 
-  if (user_options->rp_gen_seed_chgd == false)
-  {
-    srand (user_options->rp_gen_seed);
-  }
-  else
-  {
-    srand (proc_start);
-  }
-
   /**
    * logfile init
    */
@@ -803,6 +794,19 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
       opencl_ctx->force_jit_compilation = 1500;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * prepare seeding for random number generator used from random rules generator
+     */
+
+    if (user_options->rp_gen_seed_chgd == true)
+    {
+      srand (user_options->rp_gen_seed);
+    }
+    else
+    {
+      srand (proc_start);
+    }
+
     /**
      * load rules
      */