[Haskell-cafe] Re: True Random Numbers

[Ertugrul Soeylemez]

Matthew Hayden <mrehayden at googlemail.com> wrote:

> What's wrong with the System.Random.StdGen implementation of
> RandomGen?[1] (I'm not sure if it's cryptographically safe)

It's a poor PRNG.  And no, it's not anywhere near suitable for
cryptographic applications.


> Someone (Cale IIRC) has already implemented a Rand monad[2] which is
> like a state monad but it keeps a RandomGen instead.

  http://hackage.haskell.org/package/MonadRandom

  by "Cale Gibbard and others"


Greets,
Ertugrul


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