From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New function: secure-random-bytes
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:48:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51474549.2050005@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1mwu1ypfh.fsf@gmail.com>
On 03/18/13 03:26, Leo Liu wrote:
> From that discussion (almost two years ago) there was clearly interest
> in having a strongly random source. The solution you proposed looks
> excellent. Are there any progress on this matter?
There's been no progress, alas.
Yours is the first sign of interest that I've seen since then.
I may be able to find a student or two
who might volunteer to work on this; we'll see.
There's one extra wrinkle I'd like to add while we're at it:
if available we should use the random-number instructions
in recent implementations of x86 and x86-64 architectures
as this should yield even better performance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-18 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-24 7:50 New function: secure-random-bytes Leo
2011-06-24 9:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-24 17:33 ` Paul Eggert
2011-06-25 7:26 ` Leo
2011-06-27 16:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-03-18 10:26 ` Leo Liu
2013-03-18 16:48 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2013-03-18 21:07 ` Romain Francoise
2019-05-15 12:09 ` Julian Scheid
2019-05-16 17:34 ` Paul Eggert
2011-06-24 13:33 ` James Cloos
2011-06-25 7:27 ` Leo
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