hap.random: a new random number library for D

[Chris Cain via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Awesome! I'll definitely check this out :)

Would there be any chance of additional contributions, such as an 
ISAAC RNG implementation, being accepted? I wouldn't go as far as 
to guarantee it for crypto purposes, but I've been messing around 
with an implementation recently and wouldn't mind porting it over 
to D (it's based on the public domain implementation found on 
this website: http://burtleburtle.net/bob/rand/isaacafa.html )

So far the numbers it puts out appear to be pretty good from my 
observations, PLUS it's really fast for a large number of outputs 
(it costs a lot up-front, however).

I also have a variation of "ISAAC+" as described by the paper 
here: http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/438.pdf

The problem I have with "ISAAC+", though, is that the paper 
incorrectly describes the original ISAAC algorithm (Algorithm 1.1 
fails to `xor a` at line 6) so it's unclear whether the paper 
actually solves a problem. Furthermore, I'd really prefer to keep 
that xor regardless (because it may have simply been an oversight 
but intended) so it's hard (I don't want to) to really call it 
"ISAAC+" since it is notably different than the paper's 
description.

That said, it's a paper that comes up often enough in discussions 
about ISAAC that people suggest a desire for it.