Dennis Lee Bieber writes:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:05:44 -0200, Robert Girault declaimed
> the following:
>
>>I mean the fact that with 624 samples from the generator, you can
>>determine the rest of the sequence completely.
>
> Being able to predict the sequ
Chris Angelico writes:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 7:31 AM Robert Girault wrote:
>> Nice. So Python's random.random() does indeed use mt19937. Since it's
>> been broken for years, why isn't it replaced by something newer like
>> ChaCha20? Is it due to back
Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes:
> Robert Girault wrote:
>
>> Looking at its source code, it seems the PRNG behind random.random() is
>> Mersenne Twister, but I'm not sure. It also seems that random.random()
>> is using /dev/urandom. Can someo
Looking at its source code, it seems the PRNG behind random.random() is
Mersenne Twister, but I'm not sure. It also seems that random.random()
is using /dev/urandom. Can someone help me to read that source code?
I'm talking about CPython, by the way. I'm reading
https://github.com/python/cp
