From: wyhaines@...
Date: 2009-07-26T07:56:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Pseudo random

Ruby uses a mersene twister for its prng. This provides a high quality source of pseudo random numbers for noncryptographic purposes. If you need random numbers for crypto or you need independent prng streams then you need a different source.

Kirk Haines
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kless <jonas.esp@googlemail.com>

Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:55:12 
To: ruby-talk ML<ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Subject: Pseudo random


Is safe to use Kernel#rand to get pseudo-random integers?