Um,
Pretty much all your observations are incorrect.
A) The module provides a standard way of generating large random
integers from various sources, including /dev/random, /dev/urandom, egd,
and perl's own rand(). It provides these numbers as PARI integers. PARI
is used for high precision mathematics required by many crypto modules.
B) The pack/unpack statements are used to generated random numbers of
required bitsize and ensure uniform distribution in the given interval.
If you have an improvement over this, we'll use it.
C) Show us your compile time logs. According to CPANTS Crypt::Random
has passed tests on 50 platforms.
D) Not familiar with this issue. More information will be useful.
E) It is stable so we haven't done any more development on it.
cheers,
vipul
On Sun Jul 09 11:51:03 2006, guest wrote:
Show quoted text> A) - all this module actually *does* is a sysread from /dev/urandom
>
> B) - in order to support that single statement, it requires half a
> dozen bloated packages to operate - all which basically just unpack()
> the result.
>
> C) - it doesn't work under RedHat.
>
> D) - it's not compatible (will not compile, install, nor (if you got
> it to install) run) with anything that has different LANG settings to
> it.
>
> E) - is not supported (see how old the bugs are)
