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ubutler • yesterday at 10:27 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Rule #1 of rolling your own RNG: don’t.

Rule #2? Please don’t.


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ahartmetz • yesterday at 11:32 PM

Rule 3: Use as many bits of randomness as the key size.

Rule 3b: Failing rule 3, disclose motivations and full list of employers and / or customers

j16sdiz • yesterday at 10:39 PM

That's why we use the system RNG !

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