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Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function? |
Date: |
Mon, 09 May 2011 10:42:14 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 09 May 2011 18:36:19 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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.
EZ> I like Ching's proposal better. There's nothing to prevent us from
EZ> improving the existing `random' to support cryptographic strength
EZ> random numbers, is there?
With Chong's proposal GnuTLS would be used, so I think it's fine :)
Ted
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, (continued)
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Chong Yidong, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?,
Ted Zlatanov <=
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- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/05/09
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- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/09
- Re: Should Emacs provide a uuid function?, Jason Rumney, 2011/05/10
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