[ruby-core:74772] [Ruby trunk Feature#12242] Is it worth adding collision probability of SecureRandom functions in RubyDoc?

Issue #12242 has been updated by Robert A. Heiler.


You mean you suggest to have the documentation better?

The UI can be a bit confusing I agree, I'd like to have a separate tracker for documentation, since docu is definitely not a "bug", but also not 100% a real "feature" (since the latter should imply behavioural changes).

I am all in favour of better documentation - I know next to nothing about collisions in SecureRandom at all.

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Feature #12242: Is it worth adding collision probability of SecureRandom functions in RubyDoc?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12242#change-57900

* Author: Kashyap K
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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Is it feasible and/or even useful to document the probability of
collisions for the various random number generation methods in the
SecureRandom module?

I feel having a note to read about the possibility of collisions
happening for the various key lengths and generator functions might help
a lot of beginners. Although there are many birthday paradox checkers
online, I felt it would be a nice to have on the documentation pages
directly.




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