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Published: Dec 06 2012 / 08:29

Exploit Information Leaks in Random Numbers from Python, Ruby and PHP
The Mersenne Twister (MT 19937) is a pseudorandom number generator, used by Python and many other languages like Ruby, and PHP. It is known to pass many statistical randomness tests, but it's also known to be not cryptographically secure. The Python documentation is clear on this point, describing it as "completely unsuitable for cryptographic purposes." Here we will show why.
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