hap.random: a new random number library for D

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 6/11/2014 2:41 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>> 5. Another possible improvement would be something akin to a "remix"
>> function. It should work identically to reseeding, but instead of
>> setting the internal state to match the seed (as I see in
>> https://github.com/WebDrake/hap/blob/master/source/hap/random/generator.d#L485),
>> remixing should probably be XOR'd into the current state. That way if
>> you have a state based on some real entropy, you can slowly, over
>> time, drip in more entropy into the state.
>
> Also a very interesting suggestion.  Is there a standard name for this
> kind of procedure?
>

NIST's crypto-RNG papers just refer to it as "reseeding", so there might 
not be a standard name for it. FWIW, I've taken to calling it 
"accumulating entropy".