Of the use of unpredictableSeed
Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Mar 26 10:55:20 PDT 2017
On 03/24/2017 02:56 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
> Yeah, why is it that people still keep thinking unpredictableSeed(), or
> indeed, the whole of the current std.random, is useful for *anything*
> related to crypto??
>
Seems there's two issues there:
1. The name "unpredictableSeed" is highly misleading, if not outright false.
2. Maybe the std.random docs need to be more clear, right up top, that
it's not for anything security-related.
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