Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Sep 1999 13:49:25 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] i_generation numbers. |
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I wrote: > > You can't produce good random numbers fast, which is what fsirand > > would have to. > I recall the Mersenne Twister is fast and thought to be very good.
Very good at passing randomness tests, that is. Not necessarily cryptographically sound.
-- Jamie
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