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> This, obviously, is not a cryptographically strong PRNG. Why is this obvious? The generator used is L'Ecuyer's MRG32k3a : http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuy

> This, obviously, is not a cryptographically strong PRNG. Why is this obvious? The generator used is L'Ecuyer's MRG32k3a : http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/streams00s.pdf http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/streams00s... Is there a known weakness?

dfranke 17y ago
It's not really a question of known weaknesses because it's not designed to be secure in the first place; it only performs a single round. Its purpose is to be fast and to be "random enough" for scientific applications.