Thomas DuBuisson wrote:
There is a blog on this [1], but the main points about the new class are:
1) Generates bytestrings, not Ints
I like this one because it's semantically truer (tm). ;-)
2) Generalized PRNG construction and reseeding
...which takes the great burden off it's users shoulders, nice!
3) 'split' is in a different class.
Is it necessary for crypto-use? I have never used it for that and I don't know if somebody other did, but I just ask myself the question.
4) Clean failure via Either (RandomGen forced you to use exceptions)
This is much better and fits nicely into the generateKeyPair of AsymCipher with a minimum of effort.
What can you do? Accept this API, help improve the API, or argue that we should stick with RandomGen (despite short-comings noted on the blog). Please pick one and get to it!
I plan to use this (genInteger looks just too convenient), but RandomGenerator looks nice enough to use it in other crypto-projects (just my RNG-output consumers view)! Marcel -- Marcel Fourné OpenPGP-Key-ID: 0x74545C72 A good library is preferable to a tool, except when you just need that one tool.