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Re: draft random-number-generator API
- To: drepper@cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: draft random-number-generator API
- From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 21:30:38 -0400
- Cc: zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
Date: 03 Sep 1998 17:54:47 -0700
You cannot use a random bits source to perturb a RNG because it most
cases the results must be reproducible.
Yes, but that's not the case I was thinking of. There are cases where
being able to perturb it would be nice, and you don't care about
reproducibility. It would not be the default, but would be an extra
optional feature.