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Re:The Math of Shuffling Cards by kittikitti on Sunday September 07, 2025 @03:32AM (#45156161)
These are methods to generate cryptographically secure pseudo random numbers using a truly random seed.
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Re:The Math of Shuffling Cards by dragontamer on Sunday September 07, 2025 @03:12PM (#45161249)
RDSEED returns a truly random seed (as long as you aren't getting hacked while running in a VM or something)

RDRAND is allowed to stretch the true random seed a little bit inside of hardware, which is sufficient for most purposes.

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