From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function? Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 18:36:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83oc3bj37w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ipu3v0ru.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871v0raqub.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <42A7030B-DE0C-4CCA-A768-B82BE70C42F9@raeburn.org> <87liyynm6a.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83aaewjq1x.fsf@gnu.org> <87sjsnvrkr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87d3jrgah2.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304955387 5350 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2011 15:36:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 15:36:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 09 17:36:23 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 1QJSVT-0001Sc-1B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 17:36:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58170 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSVS-0000Hr-IX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 11:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57194) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSVP-0000Ha-5u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 11:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSVO-0000ae-9G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 11:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:46905) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSVN-0000aW-VX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 11:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LKX00300P8M6900@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 18:36:16 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.234.175]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LKX002PUQ0D3AL0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 09 May 2011 18:36:15 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87d3jrgah2.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:139264 Archived-At: > From: Ted Zlatanov > Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 10:27:53 -0500 > > Random number generation is implemented very well in GnuTLS, though > (cryptographers care about randomness more than almost anyone else). > > Maybe we should make GnuTLS a source of random numbers together with a > slower ELisp version when GnuTLS is not available? That would work for > everyone, I think. I like Ching's proposal better. There's nothing to prevent us from improving the existing `random' to support cryptographic strength random numbers, is there?