[Haskell-cafe] Cryptographically secure random numbers?

[Nicholas Vanderweit]

I've used this wrapper around the NaCl crypto library to generate random
numbers:

http://thoughtpolice.github.io/salt/


Nick

On Sunday, October 5, 2014, Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm in a situation where I have to generate cryptographically secure
> random UUIDs, i.e. ones that cannot feasibly be guessed/predicted.
>
> Does anyone know what options there are in this space?
>
> Ideally, I'd like to fulfill as many of these points as possible:
>
> - Few big/complicated dependencies.
> - Avoid native C if possible (ditto for non-base dependencies).
> - Avoid RDRAND if possible.
> - Non-opaque UUID type.
> - Cross-platform if possible, but the main platform would be Linux.
>
> (Generating a UUID from a random stream would be trivial, so obviously a
> library for secure random numbers would be a-okay too.)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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