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Re: random doesn't feel very random
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Jason Rumney |
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Re: random doesn't feel very random |
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Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:27:24 +0800 |
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Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:
>> One thing that wasn't discussed was how to set the
>> seed, for people who want to do debugging and who want
>> repeatable random sequences.
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> I don't think it's a good idea to be able to change the global PRNG
> state in general.
For some uses of pseudo-random numbers, repeatability is desirable.
Not every problem that requires randomness involves security.