hap.random: a new random number library for D

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 23:08:33 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
> 4. I'd just like to say the idea of using ranges for seeds gets 
> me giddy because I could totally see a range that queries 
> https://random.org for true random bits to seed with, wrapped 
> by a range that zeroes out the memory on popFront. Convenient 
> and safe (possibly? Needs review before I get excited, 
> obviously) for crypto purposes!

In some scenarios impredictability is not enough. For example, 
when you generate a session id, an attacker doesn't have to 
predict it ahead of time, he can guess it at any time later. And 
if they listen to radio waves - that's an "open protocol", an 
attacker can setup antenna near their antenna and get the same 
readings. Cryptographic PRNG and quantum TRNG are better 
isolated, so it's harder to read them.