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kevin_thibedeautoday at 4:33 AM1 replyview on HN

> no real use case

Yes there is. Not every system has the need or the resources to maintain a secure random sequence. You may also want a reproducible pseudo-random sequence in generative code that logs the seeds. Because of the misguided attitude that nobody needs these features, everyone who does need them has to roll their own now.


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Dylan16807today at 5:06 AM

> Not every system has the need or the resources to maintain a secure random sequence.

I'm sure there's something, but that category has to be shrinking every year. What does such a system look like this decade, that needs random numbers but can't easily implement something like AES?

> You may also want a reproducible pseudo-random sequence in generative code that logs the seeds. Because of the misguided attitude that nobody needs these features, everyone who does need them has to roll their own now.

I don't know what difficulty you're referring to. Basically every CSPRNG can be seeded easily and you can log the seed.