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Yes, glibc in particular uses a very nice PRNG with 992 bits of internal state and good randomness of high and low bits, though it is not cryptographically stro
by dreish 18y ago
Yes, glibc in particular uses a very nice PRNG with 992 bits of internal state and good randomness of high and low bits, though it is not cryptographically strong like /dev/urandom. I don't know what one gets on Windows, but from the graph it looks like it's got some tricky squaring thing in it that turns out not to be very good.