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Re:Designing a New PRNG by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @01:31AM (#29634630)
point 1 is just false. some examples where it's perfectly acceptable to use a bad rng in a safety critical system

factoring/prime checking algorithms

any type of stimulation (eg for drug dosing/particle stimulation)

sorting algorithms

most graph based algorithms.

in short, many real works problems are best solved by random algorithms, but the randomness can be of fairly low quality without causing problems.

Re:Designing a New PRNG by nmadden on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @09:59AM (#29637973)
He said security-critical not safety-critical. Security-critical implies an adversarial setting.