On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > But does that affect code which instantiates a MersenneTwisterRNG with > its own seed?
That's what it looked like to me, but I may have been depending on Olivier's analysis. > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Benson Margulies > <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I don't know of any further issues with MersenneTwisterRNG though -- >>> what's the issue? Don't care what it does with /dev/random as long as >>> in test mode we are seeding it with the same seed, and that's what >>> >> >> Olivier and I found the Mersenne code touching the >> SecureRandomNumberGenerator, which goes and talks to /dev/random, all >> in static blocks before any seeds are used. >> >
