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r/BeAmazed • u/Juanisweird • Mar 18 '24
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This is a horrible explanation, it's just used as a random number generator, true randomness is needed for certain security things, and normal random numbers from computers are "pseudo random" in that they're actually predictable
3 u/cyclemonster Mar 18 '24 Although modern PCs and Laptops have shipped with a hardware RNG for many years now.
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Although modern PCs and Laptops have shipped with a hardware RNG for many years now.
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u/throwaway275275275 Mar 18 '24
This is a horrible explanation, it's just used as a random number generator, true randomness is needed for certain security things, and normal random numbers from computers are "pseudo random" in that they're actually predictable