in reply to Re: Rex2 Cryptographic Random Numbers
in thread Cryptographic Random Numbers

To put it shortly: You already have the random numbers in kernel (I mean Linux).

And my musing was to have a source for all Perl programs, regardless of platform.

A good PRNG requires a few different entropy sources. Reading from /dev/urandom is just one. If that device already implements something like Yarrow, that's another story.

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Re: Re: Re: Rex2 Cryptographic Random Numbers
by YAFZ (Pilgrim) on Jul 11, 2003 at 08:23 UTC
    According to its man page it implements the Yarrow PRNG algorithm.