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After the linked article as well as https://jandemooij.nl/blog/math-random-and-32-bit-precision/ https://jandemooij.nl/blog/math-random-and-32-bit-precision/ wh
by masklinn 3y ago
After the linked article as well as https://jandemooij.nl/blog/math-random-and-32-bit-precision/ https://jandemooij.nl/blog/math-random-and-32-bit-precision/ which follows from it, the main three browsers (Chrome[0], Firefox[1], Safari[2]) actually switched to Xorshift128+. So these days Math.random is nowhere near as horrifying as it was back then, however it's still not a system or a userland CSPRNG, for that you need `crypto.getRandomValues()` (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Crypto/getRandomValues https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Crypto/getR...).
[0] https://v8.dev/blog/math-random https://v8.dev/blog/math-random
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322529#c99 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322529#c99
[2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151641 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151641