Post #2553671
2025-11-11 18:02 UTC
@josh@social.joshtriplett.org @esoterra@hachyderm.io @sunfish@hachyderm.io I'm not sure you want to standardize anything other than a crypto rng, a non-csprng is like 5 lines of code which can live entirely inside the box.
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@sunfish@hachyderm.io 2025-11-11 18:17
@dotstdy@mastodon.social @josh@social.joshtriplett.org @esoterra@hachyderm.io My understanding is, even an insecure PRNG wants at least a seed from somewhere, even if some users will chose to make the seed deterministic, others will want it to be nondeterministic. And obvious sources like clocks or other I/O aren't ideal because they could be virtualized for other purposes.