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i think the bigger problem is that the seed is easily guessed or found, so all the output can be regenerated. so it's not even 32 bits of entropy, it's some ti

by a-dub 3y ago

i think the bigger problem is that the seed is easily guessed or found, so all the output can be regenerated. so it's not even 32 bits of entropy, it's some tiny fraction of that. (system times for a few years interval)

ryanatdistrust 3y ago
As discussed elsethread, it used the lower bits of the time value, so while there is is a fraction of the 2^32 space due to precision loss in the OS time calculations, it is not as simple as "between when this software was released and now, in seconds".