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Secure Random Numbers in Node JS

3 years ago blog.boot.dev

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Randomness is a hard problem for computers. Most functions that generate randomness are not considered cryptographically secure. What this means is that it’s possible for attackers to take a good guess at what number a non-secure randomness generator generated.