Re: [elixir-core:6367] [Feature Suggestion] Wrap :rand.seed with Elixir

2016-09-22 Thread Paul Schoenfelder
It's much less common that one requires cryptographically strong random numbers than not, which is of course part of the reason why :rand does not just generate cryptographically strong random numbers for you by default. For a great many things, one doesn't need that guarantee. If you do need that

Re: [elixir-core:6367] [Feature Suggestion] Wrap :rand.seed with Elixir

2016-09-22 Thread Dorian Karter
Thanks for contributing your thoughts @paul! :) I don't think I'm doing anything weird with this code per se. The official documentation for rand says this: This random number generator is not cryptographically strong. If a strong cryptographic random numbe