Re: random doesn't feel very random

[Paul Eggert]

On 08/24/2012 12:03 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> That doesn't mean there are no such experts among Emacs developers,
> it just means I haven't seen anybody display appropriate credentials
> on emacs-devel.

I'm not sure what you mean by "credentials".  Is there a secret
handshake we have to use?  Or does published code suffice?

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/gl/lib/rand-isaac.c

An analysis is here:

http://burtleburtle.net/bob/rand/isaacafa.html

I haven't bothered to put this stuff into Emacs, but it shouldn't
be that hard to add if there's a real need.