The article discusses the security risks associated with using the Random class in .NET to generate random numbers and recommends using the RandomNumberGenerator instead, which provides more secure and higher-quality random number generation suitable for cryptographic operations and security-critical scenarios. The article also highlights the significant performance gains achieved by using the RandomNumberGenerator in .NET 7, and the author identified 42 instances in their codebase where the refactoring is necessary to improve security and performance.
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