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Generating a random number by using microseconds as a seed is more than enough for practically every single case. It still hasn't been cracked or predicted.

Some people say that, in theory, it could be cracked however, i tried and its impossible, modern computers are so complex and fast that it gives enough entropy.




That’s dangerously wrong. If you generated a password using only microseconds as a seed, an attacker who knew the day you did it could crack (an MD5 hash of) the password within a few minutes, for example.


This is wrong, on every count. Usage of microseconds as a seed trivialize the search space for the testing of potential seeds by an attacker.

The speed or complexity of computers is irrelevant.




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