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ErLounge 10-MAR-2016: Use rand module (on Erlang/OTP and Elixir)

ErLounge 10-MAR-2016: Use rand module (on Erlang/OTP and Elixir)

A public service announcement of soliciting use of the rand module, which is available since Erlang/OTP 18.0, and requesting termination of using the legacy random module

Kenji Rikitake

March 10, 2016
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  1. We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming to Bring You
    A Public Service Announcement
    1 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016

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  2. Use rand module
    now1
    1 Unless you stick to the older Erlang/OTP or Elixir versions before Erlang/OTP 18.x
    2 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016

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  3. The random module is
    obsolete
    and will be compromised by a brute-force attack in 9 hours!2
    2 https://github.com/jj1bdx/as183-c
    3 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016

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  4. Still many examples use
    random:uniform/1
    This is not good
    4 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016

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  5. Stop using
    random module
    now3
    3 Unless you stick to the older Erlang/OTP or Elixir versions before Erlang/OTP 18.x
    5 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016

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  6. Use rand:uniform/1
    or :rand.uniform()
    6 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016

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  7. Alternatives
    → exsplus116, equivalent to rand module's default
    algorithm, for 17.x or older versions of Erlang/OTP
    → sfmt-erlang (hex.pm: sfmt)
    → tinymt-erlang (hex.pm: tinymt)
    7 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016

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  8. I repeat:
    use rand module
    right now4!
    4 Unless you stick to the older Erlang/OTP or Elixir versions before Erlang/OTP 18.x
    8 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016

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  9. random module will be
    deprecated in OTP 19
    removed from OTP 20
    (Officially announced by Kenneth Lundin on Erlang
    Factory SF Bay 2016 Day 1)
    9 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016

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  10. Thank you
    10 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016

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