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by whyever 225 days ago
I agree, but https://www.pcg-random.org/ still advertizes PCG as "challenging" to predict, and critizises other RNGs as predictable and insecure.
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Right, that's a problem, because nobody that cares about this should be using PCG.
> Predictable — after 624 outputs, we can completely predict its output.

> we recovers[sic] all the secret information using 512 consecutive output bytes

oof