trivial random ports for deterministic seeding Peter McGoron (31 May 2026 16:58 UTC)
Re: trivial random ports for deterministic seeding Shiro Kawai (31 May 2026 18:12 UTC)
Re: trivial random ports for deterministic seeding Vincent Manis (he/him) (31 May 2026 18:30 UTC)
Re: trivial random ports for deterministic seeding Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (01 Jun 2026 00:11 UTC)
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Re: trivial random ports for deterministic seeding Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (01 Jun 2026 02:50 UTC)
Re: trivial random ports for deterministic seeding John Cowan (01 Jun 2026 06:25 UTC)
Re: trivial random ports for deterministic seeding Peter McGoron (01 Jun 2026 11:55 UTC)
Re: trivial random ports for deterministic seeding Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (02 Jun 2026 00:29 UTC)
Re: trivial random ports for deterministic seeding Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (01 Jun 2026 00:14 UTC)
Re: trivial random ports for deterministic seeding Peter McGoron (01 Jun 2026 00:39 UTC)
Re: trivial random ports for deterministic seeding Peter McGoron (01 Jun 2026 00:52 UTC)

Re: trivial random ports for deterministic seeding Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 02 Jun 2026 00:29 UTC

On 2026-06-01 02:25 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> I was talking about the behavior of make-random-port in the trivial
> library, namely having it reject bytevectors that are likely to be
> problematic no matter which non-trivial algorithm they are being used to
> seed.

Ah, sorry, I lost the context.

This make sense if we consider constant ('sequence'?) ports trivial
random ports.  But, as Peter suggests, they might have other uses.

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