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<blockquote data-quote="wyhaines" data-source="post: 4644931"><p>Ruby uses a mersene twister for its prng. This provides a high quality source of pseudo random numbers for noncryptographic purposes. If you need random numbers for crypto or you need independent prng streams then you need a different source.</p><p></p><p>Kirk Haines</p><p>Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry</p><p></p><p>-----Original Message-----</p><p>From: Kless <jonas.esp@googlemail.com></p><p></p><p>Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:55:12</p><p>To: ruby-talk ML<ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org></p><p>Subject: Pseudo random</p><p></p><p></p><p>Is safe to use Kernel#rand to get pseudo-random integers?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wyhaines, post: 4644931"] Ruby uses a mersene twister for its prng. This provides a high quality source of pseudo random numbers for noncryptographic purposes. If you need random numbers for crypto or you need independent prng streams then you need a different source. Kirk Haines Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Kless <jonas.esp@googlemail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:55:12 To: ruby-talk ML<ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org> Subject: Pseudo random Is safe to use Kernel#rand to get pseudo-random integers? [/QUOTE]
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