Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 10:27:53 -0500
> 
> Random number generation is implemented very well in GnuTLS, though
> (cryptographers care about randomness more than almost anyone else).
> 
> Maybe we should make GnuTLS a source of random numbers together with a
> slower ELisp version when GnuTLS is not available?  That would work for
> everyone, I think.

I like Ching's proposal better.  There's nothing to prevent us from
improving the existing `random' to support cryptographic strength
random numbers, is there?