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Re:NIST Random Beacon by stephengillie on Thursday July 20, 2017 @02:41PM (#14815184)
Could we use it as a source of "reproducable randomness"? For instance, use this as an RNG during game development?
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Re:NIST Random Beacon by URSpider94 on Thursday July 20, 2017 @02:44PM (#14815218)
Yes, exactly. If you want to run a regression test on your game, you could compare results by feeding the string in place of your rand() function, starting from the same offset.
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