From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10015 invoked by alias); 23 Oct 2009 21:28:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 9909 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Oct 2009 21:28:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,DATE_IN_PAST_06_12,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.network-theory.co.uk (HELO mail.network-theory.co.uk) (66.199.228.187) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:28:14 +0000 Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:28:00 -0000 Message-ID: From: Brian Gough To: Jonathan Leto Cc: "Robert G. Brown" , GSL Discussion list Subject: Re: New rngs... In-Reply-To: <9aaadf9c0910140912q7532fd82n9317b6e735dbc2ca@mail.gmail.com> References: <9aaadf9c0910140912q7532fd82n9317b6e735dbc2ca@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) Emacs/22.2 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Message-Mac: 77f2d36b98811958895234b85ec1cb15 Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-q4/txt/msg00024.txt.bz2 At Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:12:09 -0700, Jonathan Leto wrote: > I would very much like to see these RNGs added to GSL, so that I can > add them to Math::GSL and access them from Perl. I am willing to work > on integrating these into GSL, as long as the GSL maintainers want > this to be done. Should I continue in this direction? Yes, it would be useful to have a cryptographically based rng, so please go ahead both of you. I don't think we want to provide anything more than the actual random numbers though, so just a minimal implementation would be best. I would say we only need one, to be representative of this class of generator - AES would be ideal. -- Brian Gough