[Cryptography Team] Re: [squeak-dev] Cryptography:
Fortuna>>nextInt:
C. David Shaffer
cdshaffer at acm.org
Tue Jul 6 16:47:50 UTC 2010
On 07/06/10 11:52, Chris Muller wrote:
> Hi David, yes, absolutely, Fortuna>>#nextInt: should be deleted,
> because it is a flawed implementation, as the following script
> demonstrates:
>
> "explore it"
> |f|
> f:=Fortuna picker.
> ((1 to: 1000) collect: [ : n | f nextInt: 6 ]) asBag sortedCounts
>
> Note the consistent, heavy weighting for "1"..
>
>
Ouch, I see. Done.
David
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