[whatwg] Cryptographically strong random numbers

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Fri Feb 4 20:01:19 PST 2011


> Most operating systems provide strong sources of randomness that can
> be used to seed cryptographic PRNGs.  I'd be inclined to recommend
> that folks use that sort of "truly random" seed.

That sounds good to me.

> Given this feedback, we'll probably start off with the Uint8Array version.

Sounds like a plan.  I'll see about getting this to happen in Gecko too.

-Boris



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