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Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com> Thu, 03 April 2014 01:25 UTC

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Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> wrote:

> ... The current draft is also
> missing a discussion of the impact of fork and threading on random
> number generators, which can turn a perfectly working one into
> something utterly broken.

An otherwise fine RNG may also have serious problems when
run in a virtual machine. I think there are a whole lot of tricky
issues there.

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