On 2012-10-21, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/misc/randstate.html > > says: > > "If set_random_seed() is called with no arguments, then a new seed is > automatically selected. On operating systems that support it, the new > seed comes from os.urandom(); this is intended to be a truly random > (not pseudo-random), cryptographically secure number. (Whether it is > actually cryptographically secure depends on operating system details > that are outside the control of Sage.)" > > I agree /dev/urandom will give a truely random seed, but the numbers > generated from that seed will still be psuedo random, and not truely > random, so they are not suitable for cryptographic purposes.
The paragraph you cite does not claim anything about the resulting pseudo-random sequences. Dima > > Dave > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
