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Comment by sneak

What you just described is, in theory, just a really bad non-CS PRNG. In that sense we are in agreement that a CSPRNG is not necessary.

To your point, a non-CS PRNG seeded with a static value isn’t “random at all”.

This is why they are sometimes called DRBGs: deterministic random bit generators. You just described two such functions.

parent sneak 2 years ago

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