[erlang-questions] All possible internal states of Erlang/OTP random module are practically computable

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

A quick guess would be no. I'm pretty sure such a solution would have two
problems:

* It would not pass the necessary statistical tests well enough.
* It would be considerably slower than appropriating a PRNG made for the
purpose.

On Wed Dec 24 2014 at 11:55:35 AM Eric Pailleau <eric.pailleau@REDACTED>
wrote:

> ____
> make_ref()
>
> Returns an almost unique reference.
>
> The returned reference will reoccur after approximately 2^82 calls;
> therefore it is unique enough for most practical purposes.
> ____
>
> hi,
> could this function a base for a better non cryptographic  random
> generator ?
> phash2 on such make_ref() value does not help with 2^32 cycle...
> regards
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> « Envoyé depuis mon mobile » Eric
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