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Casper's Blog – Why I forked rand (casualhacks.net)
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[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 4 weeks ago

Isn't it pretty obvious? Fastrand is not cryptographically secure, urandom provides that option.

[-] BB_C@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks ago

Fastrand is not cryptographically secure

That's not relevant when it's a question of interface.

fastrand has a single Rng struct that drives everything else. Was the option to replace the implementation details of this struct explored? No idea.

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