Library_submissions and Call for Maintainers

Dominic Steinitz dominic at steinitz.org
Sun Mar 1 12:29:33 UTC 2015


Edward Kmett <ekmett <at> gmail.com> writes:

>  Emboldened by this success, we have a few other packages with which
> we'd like to do the same: * 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'd like to throw my hat in the ring and become a co-maintainer
also. I use random numbers a lot for various Monte Carlo simulations.


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