March 26, 2009
6:54 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:43:35AM -0600, Adam Olsen wrote:
Is it or is it not broken? That's all I want to know. "maybe" isn't good enough. "Not broken for small lists" implies it IS broken for large lists.
Disabling it (raising an exception for large lists) is of course just a stopgap measure. Better would be a PRNG with a much larger period.. but of course that'd require more CPU time and more seed.
It's only broken in a theoretical sense. It's fun to think about, but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868