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That... sounds amateurish. Everyone just uses a hardware RNG for random number seeds.
by azernik 8y ago
That... sounds amateurish. Everyone just uses a hardware RNG for random number seeds.
- darksaints 8y agoIt would be amateurish if it were cryptography for sure. But I would never expect that sort of attack vector as a quant. Most quants are worried about alpha loss, not having your order flow fingerprinted.
- ah- 8y agoWell it's nice for testing to have something repeatable. But still sounds like an urban legend.
- simonh 8y agoNowadays yes but I suspect this story is from decades ago, before hardware RNGs and good cryptographically secure algorithms were commonplace.