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		whyever 60 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A brief history of random numbers (2018) I agree, but https://www.pcg-random.org/ still advertizes PCG as "challenging" to predict, and critizises other RNGs as predictable and insecure.

tptacek 60 days ago | [–]

Right, that's a problem, because nobody that cares about this should be using PCG.

avadodin 60 days ago | [–]

> Predictable — after 624 outputs, we can completely predict its output.

> we recovers[sic] all the secret information using 512 consecutive output bytes

oof

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