Hackaday has an interesting article illustrating how Google managed to ship Chrome's JavaScript engine with a very poor-performing Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) for Math.random().
One thing the article doesn't seem to mention, and should: anyone who depends on high quality pseudo-random numbers needs to be explicitly using a well-designed, properly-seeded cryptographically secure PRNG at the minimum. Using the language built-in random() function is only acceptable where you know the quality of the randomness doesn't really matter.
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Monday, December 28, 2015
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