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I agree, but https://www.pcg-random.org/ https://www.pcg-random.org/ still advertizes PCG as "challenging" to predict, and critizises other RNGs as predictable

by whyever 11mo ago

I agree, but https://www.pcg-random.org/ https://www.pcg-random.org/ still advertizes PCG as "challenging" to predict, and critizises other RNGs as predictable and insecure.

tptacek 11mo ago
Right, that's a problem, because nobody that cares about this should be using PCG.
avadodin 11mo ago
> Predictable — after 624 outputs, we can completely predict its output. > we recovers[sic] all the secret information using 512 consecutive output bytes oof