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How do I demonstrate that a PRNG not designed for cryptography is not suitable for generating passwords?
This is a replication of this question on Stack Overflow. There's class Random in .NET runtime which is designed for use as a cheap fast source of pseudo-random ...
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Unit testing a library RNG and its seeding for practical security
Suppose I have a cryptography library that provides me with a black-box random number generator that is supposed to be suitable for long-lived key generation. (Under the hood it may be assumed to use ...