Nelson H. F. Beebe <be...@math.utah.edu> wrote: > Thanks for the comments, Theo. > > I wasn't clear in my posting about distinguishing deterministic from > nondeterministic generators. The former are required for reproducible > simulations
Perhaps. Even then they often criminally abused, ie. Neil Ferguson -- sometimes the final results become decoupled from the inputs and become biased towards the seed/sequence. > the latter are needed for things like cryptographic key > generation. I disagree. Outside of the deterministic cases, *all* other things should be strong random. There should be no such thing as "weak random". Tying this to "for cryptographic keys" is a mistake. Every DNS packet contains a 16-bit ID. Should it use weak random, since it is not cryptographic key generation?
