[darcs-devel] [patch1898] WIP: identical commutes are an internal ... (and 1 more)

[Ben Franksen]

Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de> added the comment:

>> I hope you are aware that the standard random uses a time stamp as its
>> only source of entropy. This is decidedly not cryptographically secure.
>> (Disclaimer: I haven't yet looked at your patch).
> 
> We don't need cryptographic security for our tests, just a
> (probabilistic) guarantee of collision-freedom. As long as the RNG is
> only initialised once for a given test then even a deterministic
> sequence of pseudo-random numbers ought to be fine, unless I'm
> misunderstanding something about their behaviour.

No this is correct. Sorry for the noise, I should have looked at your
patch before commenting.

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