How to safely generate a random number

Re:How to safely generate a random number by ars on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:39PM (#7302463)

/dev/urandom is slow. So don't use it if you need lots of non secure random numbers. For example for game, or for a screensaver, etc.

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Re:How to safely generate a random number by montecarl on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:55PM (#7302544)

If you want fast non-secure random numbers use Mersenne Twister: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister

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Re:How to safely generate a random number by SamReidHughes2 on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:40AM (#7311441)

You can also get much faster secure random numbers.

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