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Comment by bhickey

I haven't looked closely enough at their choice to evaluate it, but there's a good reason not to use Mersenne Twister. MT is a bad generator.

* The state size is 2kb

* It fails some rudimentary statistical tests

* The output is trivially predicted

* It isn't particularly fast

* It lacks multi-stream support

If you need a CSPRNG use ChaCha20 or AES. For simulation use PCG.

parent bhickey 11 years ago

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