il Tue, 25 Feb 2003 04:00:25 +0900, Robert Feldt <feldt / ce.chalmers.se> ha scritto:: >Hi, > >Its good news that Ruby 1.7.x and later uses the Mersenne Twister for >rand. <snip/> It seems to me that I noticed something about this thing in your web site. Could we hope you just did some work and could integrate it with the actual MT implementation? Having a PRNG class would be cool, and marshaling ( seen has seed-saving) would be good too. It would even be cool to have a choice, cause (I seem to remeber) that MT is not a *secure* algorithm. And.. this hypotethical module could support underlying OS's RNG (at least on some ) .. We could benefit of powerful alghoritms on modern OSes, such as Yarrow , and even get the fast native implementation.