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Both the Random and the RandomNumberGenerator classes are basically pseudo-random number generators and as they are based on algorithms, there is a limit as to how random their outputs can be. But when compared to the Random, the RandomNumberGenerator class is considered as a Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator as it makes use of a quite a few other environmental parameters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptGenRandom) for ensuring randomness. Some of the parameters are: <ul> <li>The current process ID</li> <li>The current thread ID </li> <li>The tick count since boot time</li> <li>The current time</li> <li>Various high-precision performance counters</li> <li>An MD4 hash of the user's environment block</li> <li>High-precision internal CPU counters</li> </ul> Do go through the following link which is an interesting read regarding randomness: <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/11/computers-are-lousy-random-number-generators.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/11/computers-are-lousy-random-number-generators.html</a> <hr> For the purpose normal usage scenarios such as generating passwords as in your case, the use of the RandomNumberGenerator class is more than enough (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.random.aspx): "To generate a cryptographically secure random number suitable for creating a random password, for example, use a class derived from System.Security.Cryptography.RandomNumberGenerator such as System.Security.Cryptography.RNGCryptoServiceProvider."
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