Hasard

Release Notes: The @secure_nonblocking profile now also tries dev_nonblocking and cryptgen after using OpenSSL secure and gcrypt strong. A cache of 512 bytes was added to tick_array() for byte generators. The documentation was updated.

Release Notes: This release supports Mac OS X and big endian (PPC32) CPUs. tools/testu01.c, a TestU01 test suite, has been created. There is a new engine: dev_hardware (/dev/random, or /dev/srandom on OpenBSD). The profile "@secure" has been replaced by "@secure_nonblocking" and "@secure_blocking".

Release Notes: The result of hasard_double(a, b) is now in [a; b( instead of [a; b] form because most libraries use this convention. New KISS, libc_rand, and libc_rand48 engines were included along with a hasard_clone() function. "Weak" engines (minimum_standard, park_miller, randu, etc.) were moved to a new library (hasardweak) to keep only good RNG in the hasard library and to have a smaller memory footprint. The hasard_pow2() function was removed and hasard_ulong() is used instead to detect integer overflows at compile time. All public functions were documented and the Hasard version in which the function was introduced was specified.

Release Notes: This release creates the engines gcrypt_nonce, gcrypt_weak, gcrypt_strong, gcrypt_very_strong, gsl, gmp_mt, libc_rand, and libc_rand48. It has a new function hasard_shuffle() to mix elements of an array. glib and OpenSSL libraries and functions are now dynamically loaded (for a smaller memory footprint and easier compilation). This release reseeds the engine in a child process after a fork(). An examples directory ("hello world" and shuffle examples) has been added.

Release Notes: Windows support (creation of the cryptgen engine). The addition of OpenSSL and glib engines. Fixes for compiler issues (64-bit CPUs and ISO C). The "support" function has been removed: call directly a function to check whether it is supported or not.