From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-02-25T19:30:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Objectify the mersenne twister in 1.8?

>>>>> "Y" == Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

Y> I didn't know MT is insecure.  Do you have any reference?

 Mersenne-Twister is not *CRYPTOGRAPHY* secure, see

    http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/efaq.html

 This does not mean that it's not a good random generator : pseudo random
 generator has different uses and not all are for cryptography.


Guy Decoux