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From: mhx@iae.nl (mhx)
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Subject: Re: KISS 64-bit pseudo-random number generator
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:07:19 +0000
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 2:15:56 +0000, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> writes:
>> Marsaglia's 64-bit KISS PRNG. Hard to say which is better for this
>> problem.
>
> Try either against a cryptographic PRNG and see if there is enough
> difference to satisfy a traditional statistical hypothesis test?

I guess these generators need to be initialized. Wouldn't the outcome
of the integration then depend on the statistical characteristics of
method used to do that initialization?

-marcel