[racket] Cross-Platform Secure RNG?

I might be wrong but MRG32k3a doesn't seem to have been cryptanalyzed
extensively enough to count as cryptographically secure. Probably it
isn't.

The crypto library on Planet has random-bytes and
random-bytes! that ought to be more secure. (However, I do not know the
code OpenSSL uses to gather entropy on different platforms.)

The library hasn't been updated for a while.

Best,

Erich


On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:38:31 +0200
Marijn <hkBst at gentoo.org> wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> On 12-07-12 02:10, Nick Sivo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does there exist in Racket a cross-platform way to generate 
> > cryptographically secure[1] pseudorandom numbers?  Some code I'm 
> > currently working on directly uses /dev/urandom which would be fine
> > if I wasn't using Windows.  I looked in the openssl bindings and
> > the racket documentation but didn't find anything.
> > 
> > If it doesn't exist, which of a pull request or a planet package
> > is more appropriate?
> 
> I think srfi 27[1] provides what you're looking for.
> 
> Marijn
> 
> [1]:http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-27/srfi-27.html
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
> 
> iEYEARECAAYFAk/+4WcACgkQp/VmCx0OL2xc5ACZAfoiZiyBgRPQ/fC92mNrPDjY
> uvsAnR1SudG3BX0go3tfMSuUdF2D5Jjp
> =8B7a
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> ____________________
>   Racket Users list:
>   http://lists.racket-lang.org/users