SHA-based subclass for random module
Trevor Perrin
trevp at trevp.net
Mon Mar 22 17:08:02 EST 2004
Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:<7xptbgjpk4.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>...
> http://www.nightsong.com/phr/python/sharandom.c
>
> This is intended to be less predicable/have fewer correlations than
> the default Mersenne Twister or Wichmann-Hill generators. Comments
> are appreciated.
Slightly OT, but...
What about a subclass of Random that provides an interface to
platform-specific secure RNGs:
- /dev/urandom on some unixes
- CryptGenRandom on windows
- SecureRandom on Java
I think you've suggested this yourself, a few times. Is any work
being done in this direction?
Trevor
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