dxorshift: random number generators from the extended Xorshift family

Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed May 18 10:12:38 PDT 2016


On Wednesday, 18 May 2016 at 16:12:35 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 23:34:46 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling 
> wrote:
>>
>> Wrapper implemented here, together with documentation and 
>> tests:
>> https://github.com/WebDrake/dxorshift/pull/1
>>
>> N.B. I'm sticking with the explicit wrapper, because I want to 
>> be really, really certain that what comes out is an input 
>> range whose underling RNG can _never_ be copied by value.
>
> Thought you might find this interesting:
> http://news.utexas.edu/2016/05/16/computer-science-advance-could-improve-cybersecurity
>
> and reddit discussion:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4jvihm/computer_scientists_have_developed_a_new_method/

Yea, I was looking at that earlier today -- looks interesting!  
It would be good to try to implement it for D.


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