Re: Getting randomic integers

[Erik Lindroos <gliptic@...>]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:

One would assume that it's perfectly safe for some cryptographic
purposes?  Such as stream ciphers, which are essentially PRNGs anyway.

No, it's NOT safe for stream ciphers. It's possible to determine the internal state from quite little output.