Re: More powerful (and backward compatible) API of random number generator functions

From: Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:30:43 +0000
Subject: Re: More powerful (and backward compatible) API of random number generator functions
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Ángel González <[email protected]> wrote:

> Marc Bennewitz wrote:
>
>> Idea for an RFC for a more powerful (and backward compatible) API of
>> random number generator functions.
>>
>> The following psaudocode is self explained (hopfully)
>>
>> const RAND_ALGO_LIBC
>> const RAND_ALGO_MERSENNE_TWISTER
>> const RAND_ALGO_OPENSSL
>> const RAND_ALGO_GMP
>>
> (...)
>
>> What do you think?
>>
>
> Why do you want them?


This proposal is good because we need the best random function available in
a system
with easy to use API. I would like to see the best algorithm in a system as
default.

Regards,

--
Yasuo Ohgaki
[email protected]


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