FYI and please chip in
Edward Kmett
writes: * random
We've had some truly excellent work done over the last couple of years on how to deal with "splitting" a random number generator in a cryptographically sound manner. I spent some time cleaning up a few outstanding issues for this package personally over the summer, but have not had nearly enough time to devote to the issue of how to integrate the outcome of the recent research on splitting, while simultaneously caring about performance and soundness.
I finally managed to get some time to start looking at this. I have created a ticket here
https://github.com/haskell/random/issues/25
Please add comments and any information you think Carter and I might find helpful.
I discovered the package has some benchmarks that are 3+ years old. At the moment, I am not sure what they are telling me. If anyone has any background / views please chip in.
Dominic.
Dominic Steinitz dominic@steinitz.org http://idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com