AMDG Chad Nelson wrote:
"Random Number Functions The library includes a secure random number generator, primarily to support the random_prime function, but a user-friendly interface is also available to developers using the library."
*Mersenne Twister is not a cryptographic PRNG*
Hm, you're right. I didn't realize that it could be predicted after so few values. I'll re-work that part to use /dev/urandom or RtlGenRandom directly when they're available.
On systems where they're *not* available, is there a better choice of generator, given an (unpredictable) user-supplied seed value?
All the Boost.Random generators are linear and therefore insecure. Can you just use boost::random_device instead of writing your own wrapper? In Christ, Steven Watanabe