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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:01:06 +0900
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To: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PRNG: Raise warning and/or provide better
 pseudorandom generator?
From: yohgaki@ohgaki.net (Yasuo Ohgaki)

Hi Tom,

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote:
> On 2/23/16 7:13 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
>
>>> >http://www.pcg-random.org/
>>
>> It's simple and supports 64bit int out of the box.
>> Looks great!
>
>
> PSG is very interesting. But it's new and hasn't been peer reviewed yet.
> It's in the "experimental" stage while others are more "well known".
>
> xorshift+ seems fairly popular.

It looks excellent.
We may be better to provide better repeatable pseudo random generators and
algorithm may be select-able like hash.

Regards,

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Yasuo Ohgaki
yohgaki@ohgaki.net