[PATCH] getrandom: new applet

Rich Felker dalias at libc.org
Sun Jul 3 19:22:05 UTC 2016


On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 06:46:32PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:47 PM, walter harms <wharms at bfs.de> wrote:
> > perhaps a better aim ist to improve the $RANDOM in ash ?
> 
> $RAMDOM generator in my tests passed all "dieharder -g 200 -a" tests.
> How much better than this do you need?

That's not saying much. A tempered LCG with 32-bit state/period can
pass all of dieharder except the period tests.

Rich


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