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Nick Mathewson
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We need a weak RNG in a couple of places where the strong RNG is both needless and too slow. We had been using the weak RNG from our platform's libc implementation, but that was problematic (because many platforms have exceptionally horrible weak RNGs -- like, ones that only return values between 0 and SHORT_MAX) and because we were using it in a way that was wrong for LCG-based weak RNGs. (We were counting on the low bits of the LCG output to be as random as the high ones, which isn't true.) This patch adds a separate type for a weak RNG, adds an LCG implementation for it, and uses that exclusively where we had been using the platform weak RNG.
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