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Fast backtracking-resistant random generator: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02227

6 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2018-06-11 · latest 2025-10-26

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  1. extremely expensive No. CSPRNGs can be pretty competitive these days: https://github.com/google/randen Yes, in some cases that’s still (a bit) too slow or too much code but best to benchmark first.
    comment by rainworld · 2025-08-07 · in Monte Carlo Crash Course: Quasi-Monte Carlo
  2. https://github.com/google/randen#performance
    comment by rainworld · 2021-05-02 · in Evolution of Random Number Generators
  3. …from scratch, but they used an SSE implementation, not an AVX2 one, which would have been faster: https://github.com/google/randen/blob/1365a91bafc04ba491ce79...
    comment by espadrine · 2020-04-19 · in Show HN: Shishua – Fast pseudo-random generator
  4. …need something fast and with stronger security guarantees, Google Randen remains a solid choice. https://github.com/google/randen
    comment by jedisct1 · 2020-04-18 · in Show HN: Shishua – Fast pseudo-random generator
  5. For a fast and secure RNG, take a look at Google Randen instead: https://github.com/google/randen
    comment by jedisct1 · 2018-06-11 · in PCG: a family of better random number generators