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Curious how they screwed this one up - did they just have no proper random source? Nothing like modern operating systems use, like disk latency? If you're in th
by problems 10y ago
Curious how they screwed this one up - did they just have no proper random source? Nothing like modern operating systems use, like disk latency? If you're in the business of doing random numbers, you'd think you'd embed a cheap hardware based random number generator, even if it was extremely limited, just to seed a CSPRNG.
- mark-r 10y agoI'm guessing that proper hardware random sources, or the operating system entropy generators, are harder to verify by gaming commissions so they didn't get used. The article does mention that more modern software uses cryptographic generators that can't be predicted.