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Congratulations, you have just made pseudorandom generators a bad decision.
by dozzie 12y ago
Congratulations, you have just made pseudorandom generators a bad decision.
- pjc50 12y agoWell, they're easy, convenient, and have subtle downsides: difficult to test code that depends on them without machinery to reset the seed, potential problems in a multithreaded environment, may be used in ways that do not produce evenly distributed outcomes, and for CSPRNGs a whole other bunch of crypto downsides. Banning RNGs from e.g. avionics control systems sounds more like a good decision than a bad one.
- dozzie 12y agoWhy yes, yes, of course. I fail to see where avionics need PRNGs (but I don't program avionics, so I might miss some uses). But surely UUIDs are as bad as random numbers in software for a plane?