il Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:02:48 +0900, matz / ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) ha scritto:: >Hi, > >In message "Re: Objectify the mersenne twister in 1.8?" > on 03/02/25, gabriele renzi <surrender_it / rc1.vip.lng.yahoo.com> writes: > >|It would even be cool to have a choice, cause (I seem to remeber) >|that MT is not a *secure* algorithm. > >I didn't know MT is insecure. Do you have any reference? > > matz. http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html says: Caution: MT is for MonteCarlo, and is NOT SECURE for CRYPTOGRAPHY as it is. That was the reason I wrote secure *this way* .. Well, I could have explained myself better, sorry :-/