Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting

[Robert Kern]

On 2015-06-27 08:58, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2015-06-27 04:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> Maybe you use Python's standard library and the Mersenne Twister. The period
>> of that is huge, possibly bigger than 256! (or not, I forget, and I'm too
>> lazy to look it up). So you think that's safe. But it's not: Mersenne
>> Twister is not a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. If
>> I can get some small number of values from the Twister (by memory,
>> something of the order of 100 such values) then I can predict the rest for
>> ever.
>
> 634.

Bah! 624.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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