Owen Williams reporting for TheNextWeb:
To fix the bug Google needed to switch to a new pseudo-random number generator called xorshift128+ which fixes the not-quite-random problem found in the older MWC1616 algorithm.
xorshift128+ results in random numbers that are actually random and offers significant performance improvements, however is not cryptographically secure, so shouldn’t be used to create GUIDs or other secure hashes.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
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