On 2015-06-27 04:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Maybe you use Python's standard library and the Mersenne Twister. The period of that is huge, possibly bigger than 256! (or not, I forget, and I'm too lazy to look it up). So you think that's safe. But it's not: Mersenne Twister is not a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. If I can get some small number of values from the Twister (by memory, something of the order of 100 such values) then I can predict the rest for ever.
634. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
