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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by egypturnash on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:13PM (#16996243)
Mersenne Twister, with a seed based on the amount of Americum-241 detected by a Geiger counter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium#Occurrence if you’re curious how much there generally is and how much it might fluctuate.

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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by rootw0rm on Friday May 04, 2018 @05:45PM (#16998638)
There's no excuse for using MT for anything important this century.
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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by himom on Saturday May 05, 2018 @04:07AM (#17000886)
Fortuna w/ AES as the block cipher.
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