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soegaard on June 3, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security adviso...

> This, obviously, is not a cryptographically strong PRNG.

Why is this obvious?

The generator used is L'Ecuyer's MRG32k3a : https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/streams00s...

Is there a known weakness?

dfranke on June 3, 2009 [–]

It's not really a question of known weaknesses because it's not designed to be secure in the first place; it only performs a single round. Its purpose is to be fast and to be "random enough" for scientific applications.

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