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There is nothing wrong with PRNGs, they are perfectly cryptographically secure when used correctly. In fact, AES-CTR is just XORing the plaintext with a pseudo-
by dgroshev 2y ago
There is nothing wrong with PRNGs, they are perfectly cryptographically secure when used correctly. In fact, AES-CTR is just XORing the plaintext with a pseudo-random generator (AES'd counter + initialiser). The problem is bad and misused PRNGs.
- SAI_Peregrinus 2y agoIn context I read PRNGs as being compared to CSPRNGs. CSPRNGs should be the default.
- loeg 2y agoGP is using "PRNG" to mean "the subset of PRNGs that are not CSPRNGs."