From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New function: secure-random-bytes
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:26:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m18vsqfk25.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E04CA7B.2020101@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:33:47 -0700")
On 2011-06-25 01:33 +0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I suggest using ISAAC-64, which is what coreutils' random-bytes
> generators use by default. (Coreutils originally defaulted to
> /dev/urandom, but users complained because that was too slow.)
> On my list of things to do is to gnulib-ize the coreutils
> ISAAC-64 and random-bytes generators, and I can do that if
> there's interest.
This looks like a better solution. I like it.
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-25 7:26 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 [this message]
2011-06-27 16:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-03-18 10:26 ` Leo Liu
2013-03-18 16:48 ` Paul Eggert
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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