Cryptographic Primitives
stephane ducasse
stephane.ducasse at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 19:42:31 UTC 2006
so go for them...
> BTW, while we're at it: In Croquet, I've added a primitive to
> gather entropy
what is that?
entropy from the OS sounds like a fun concept.
Stef
> from the OS for seeding crypto RNGs securely; if the current Crypto
> prims don't include that I would heavily lobby for including it -
> while it's not difficult to write platform specific versions,
> having a common abstraction over the vastly different means (a file
> on Unix, and API call on Windows) is definitely helpful.
>
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
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