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> it's probably a fine algorithm. Yeah. I'm nervous about inventing my own RNG. It seems like one of those things thats much more difficult than it appears on
by josephg 3y ago
> it's probably a fine algorithm.
Yeah. I'm nervous about inventing my own RNG. It seems like one of those things thats much more difficult than it appears on the surface. Especially an RNG thats aiming to be crypto-secure.
- tatersolid 3y ago> I'm nervous about inventing my own RNG. You should be, but in this case you’re actually not inventing your own CSPRNG. NIST SP 800-90A defines HASH_DRBG as hashing a seed (aka key) plus a counter and it is defined for basically any cryptographic hash function.