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Gilles commented on RNG-19:
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{quote}Should it be ported over to the RNG component
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+1
{quote}deprecated from math4
{quote}
I can just be removed (code was never released).
{quote}it makes more sense to have it in RNG.
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I had put it in CM there on the rationale that it was a bad suggestion for
continued usage of {{java.util.Random}} (not taking into account the case for
{{SecureRandom}}).
> System generator (/dev/random)
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> Key: RNG-19
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RNG-19
> Project: Commons RNG
> Issue Type: Wish
> Reporter: Emmanuel Bourg
> Priority: Minor
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> Commons RNG could include a random number generator based on the output of
> /dev/random or /dev/urandom on Unix systems.
> Commons Crypto has an implementation that could be used as a starting point:
> https://github.com/apache/commons-crypto/blob/master/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/crypto/random/OsCryptoRandom.java
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