From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New function: secure-random-bytes Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:26:42 +0800 Message-ID: References: <87liwrh7r2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4E04CA7B.2020101@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308986872 15894 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2011 07:27:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 07:27:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 25 09:27:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QaNHQ-00030n-9F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:27:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57878 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QaNHP-0001CF-Gq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:27:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51258) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QaNGe-00017h-BS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:27:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QaNGd-0008Mu-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:27:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:34259) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QaNGc-0008Mp-ID for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: by iwn8 with SMTP id 8so3874472iwn.0 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:26:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=R7PBRpxsIP9Lajyohu8iN3aXR8AltCKbYATJe841LHU=; b=T2piNESWurLmM7Tfr1rRwPUV77sSc55bLyQmfkKPxIHJ1hoG1b+WUsEZArOGxu0KPe w0CdEZo/b8mPlbip0kwiwK8djkx8CD0Dw2aq62GcfPjTASjw6zYzmFCFXgq+kMPWkWe0 ariabmvv28P9lEZwAr5BTfRQ6zkgBk63Ljeq0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=EhYvNSLG3UkuFS9+PmTZJxf0ox5fiQKm5n7se8xRdtgB5cam3aEksHxzLNFp1bRLKQ w7X+7vw44ffdWOEMm3OHK2A8WbGyhK4UMU7lK4g8IaKJmVF5PG/t4iJKY8XXpmECcXJp mNEVGTqIoSwLv3Ec7se3GQPhhXK8G+D8+STj8= Original-Received: by 10.42.133.136 with SMTP id h8mr4631911ict.39.1308986817543; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:26:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([123.114.32.74]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s2sm3341408icw.17.2011.06.25.00.26.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:26:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E04CA7B.2020101@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:33:47 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3.50 (Mac OS X 10.6.7) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.214.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140952 Archived-At: 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