Yes, we aspire to standardize a good RBG as an "upgrade" to Math.random -- obviously a new name would be needed, but with docs and evangelization we would hope to steer people away from that old p.o.s. I copied from Java in 1995 (quote unquote).
See http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:random-er for the mostly-aspirational page. As Boris says, this is a core language strawman proposal, not something we want browser-only (think http://nodejs.org/). /be On Feb 13, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 2/13/11 8:22 PM, Adam Barth wrote: >> It seems likely that window.crypto will continue to grow more quality >> cryptographic APIs, not all of which will be appropriate at the >> ECMAScript level. > > Sure; the question is whether this _particular_ API would be more appropriate > at the language level. Or more to the point, if the language plans to grow > it anyway, do we need two APIs for it? > > It's worth at least checking with the ES folks whether they plan to add a API > like this (something that fills in an array of bytes with cryptographically > strong random values) in any sort of short-term timeframe. > > -Boris > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
