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Re:Evolution of Random Number Generators by Someone on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:13PM (#27018609)
I can’t look into your use case, but I’m not sure you realize how spectacularly bad xoring with a fixed value is as a way to generate a ‘random’ permutation.

For example, it will still alternate odd and even numbers.

Also, an adversary can derive the xor key from a single sample, and predict the entire sequence from it.

Re:Evolution of Random Number Generators by TekMol on Monday May 03, 2021 @01:20AM (#27021867)
Alterning odd and even numbers is fine.

There is no adversary. The use case is not about security.