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Re:PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators by echaozh on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @08:19AM (#9890884)
> (This last one relies on the operating system placing myRNG at a different address every time the program is run. It's not as strong as the other techniques.)

from: http://www.pcg-random.org/useful-features.html#id2

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Re:PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators by justincormack on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @10:00AM (#9891266)
Linux gives each process a 32 bit random seed, which is probably more useful (as is making a syscall). On an embedded system the address seed may well be useless anyway.
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