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by TekMol 1878 days ago

    if your n isn’t a power of two,
    it may produce numbers larger
    than n
This is the biggest problem.

The others are not such big problems as I don't need strong resemblence to real randomness.

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I can’t look into your use case, but I’m not sure you realize how spectacularly bad xoring with a fixed value is as a way to generate a ‘random’ permutation.

For example, it will still alternate odd and even numbers.

Also, an adversary can derive the xor key from a single sample, and predict the entire sequence from it.

Alterning odd and even numbers is fine.

There is no adversary. The use case is not about security.