•Re: Cryptographic Random Numbers

Standard module that works on every platform

Have you found a platform on which Math::TrulyRandom does not work? If so, have you contacted the author?

Are you merely asking that something like that be made "core"? I don't agree. I don't think that every user needs it, enough to pad an already bloated core. And if it's need, it's trivial to install.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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Re^2: Cryptographic Random Numbers by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jul 07, 2003 at 23:43 UTC
Judging by the comments in the source M::TR doesn't look like it's a good fit for all situations.	[reply]
Re: •Re: Cryptographic Random Numbers by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jul 09, 2003 at 18:08 UTC
OK, let me back off a little. The mechanism of Yarrow or whatever its successor is called would certainly go into a module, complete with lots of dependancies. The only think I'm proposing the CORE for is one cheap entropy source. —John	[reply]