[Development] CSPRNG vs DPRNG

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Fri Oct 13 21:58:21 CEST 2017


On Friday, 13 October 2017 11:15:19 PDT Lars Knoll wrote:
> > Well, one of them is deterministic, but only if you know the seed which
> > comes from the non-deterministic one. So it's highly unlikely that you'll
> > be able to determine its sequence.
> 
> Of course, but they have different characteristics that the names above
> don't really reflect. From looking at the names, I doubt most people would
> guess that one of them can block, while the other doesn't.

Neither of them can block.

Change uploaded [please disregard the docs, I'm going to work on those later]:

https://codereview.qt-project.org/208442

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