> > But I repeat myself; are you still intending to use cryptographic security
> > for one bit? What does that buy you? An attacker will laugh at the waste
> > of resources that went into a coin-flip :-). Much better is to use something
> > cheaper like time-of-day XOR 1 << whatever.
>
> Pseudo random numbers are so cheap (or they should be) that you
> just don't want to try and 'optimize' here. It is much better to
> be conservative and use a good PRNG until it *proves* to be very
> problematic.
Why not just XOR the whole lot into the current ${randomnumber}?
That way, at least the effort of the whole calculation is not wasted
as much.
M
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