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True. But every language has gone through this issue. Node is particularly vulnerable to weak prng seeding due to relying on forking to support multiple process
by baudehlo 11y ago
True. But every language has gone through this issue. Node is particularly vulnerable to weak prng seeding due to relying on forking to support multiple processes. Am I that old and grumpy to expect people to be aware of the history here?
- seanwilson 11y agoI think the size of this thread as well as the existence of blog posts like this means it's a mistake that's always going to be repeated. There's way too many programming gotchas to expect people to keep track of them all. Language support to avoid classes of mistakes is a great idea to me e.g. such as having a good random algorithm by default and a UUID library.