Library_submissions and Call for Maintainers

[Carter Schonwald]

i'd be interested in at least being a comaintainer of random. A lot of work
i'm doing lately depends on having high quality + performant RNGs in
haskell.  (i do think its a sufficiently subtle domain that 2 heads are
better than one for steering the course mind you)

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not wedded to either approach on splitting. I'm mostly concerned that
> we have someone who is at least giving these topics consideration.
>
> -Edward
>
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Gershom B <gershomb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On February 28, 2015 at 11:39:48 PM, Edward Kmett (ekmett at gmail.com)
>> wrote:
>> > * 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.
>>
>> With regards to random, rather than making System.Random crypographically
>> sound (which, as I understand it, could require changes to the API), there
>> is a “halfway house” approach — implementation of the SplitMix algorithm of
>> Steele, Lea and Flood [1]. This algorithm, now included in Java JDK8,
>> claims that it is a "version of the purely functional API used in the
>> Haskell library for over a decade, but SplitMix is faster and produces
>> pseudorandom sequences of higher quality.”
>>
>> I am not volunteering to work on such a project, but it seems like it
>> could not only be worthwhile, but quite a bit of fun for somebody with the
>> right inclination.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2660195&CFID=630640078&CFTOKEN=34009864
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Gershom
>>
>
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