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Linked to that, I'm wondering how epoch seeding could be used with RNG in general. According to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/521295/seeding-the-random-n
by csdvrx 4y ago
Linked to that, I'm wondering how epoch seeding could be used with RNG in general.
According to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/521295/seeding-the-random-number-generator-in-javascript https://stackoverflow.com/questions/521295/seeding-the-rando... it's not possible.
But if you have 2 events with a variable time between them (ex: when the user get a document, when you the user click on submit) I think it should: the set of {start, end} would have some limited entropy.
- n2d4 4y agoThe StackOverflow question you linked is specifically about JavaScript's Math.random function. As you said, in general it's possible, in fact most software PRNGs use the epoch to construct their seeds.