On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 04:29:37AM +0100, Daniel Ricketts wrote:
> Whenever I go to Settings Options lately, the program just shuts
> down. I wanted to change the dice rolling program (not a fan of
> Mercennes Twister).
Did you change the random number generator to Blum, Blum ad Shub ? In
this case, it is probably this bug :
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57892
This is specific to BBS. The other RNGs should be fine. Deleting your
configuration file as suggested by Christian, or editing it to remove
the "set rng ..." line should fix the issue.
What don't you like in Mersenne twister ? If it is that it is not
cryptographically strong, ISAAC could be an alternative. From what I
read it has not been studied as much as BBS in this regard, but is
presumed to be strong.
FWIW, I can add the Xoshiro RNG to GNUbg. I wrote the code and tested it
a bit, but finally didn't add it since it seemed pointless to have a
larger collection of dice generators. Still, if someone make a credible
case for it, it would be easy to do.
