Post #2553657
2025-11-11 15:37 UTC
@sunfish@hachyderm.io
For secure RNG you're entirely right - but for insecure RNG being able to virtualize number generation can actually be really useful to guarantee determinism.
This isn't just useful for testing, but also for use cases like hermetic build systems which want to be fully deterministic. I can definitely see cases where an impl might want to virtualize that.
Replies (1)
-
@esoterra@hachyderm.io 2025-11-11 15:43
@yosh@toot.yosh.is @sunfish@hachyderm.io sure, but I imagine we could specify how to handle this in a deterministic profile of the component model. maybe a PRNG with a seed computed from the component's static representation?