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Re: useful additional procedure for random bytes?

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Bengt Kleberg <eleberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> since most cryptographical
> algorithms use not integers, but arrays of bytes, 

This opens up another whole can of worms, since Scheme doesn't have
bytes. This is one of my pet peeves. I'm not terribly sure that going
down this road is a good idea.

> perhaps a list (of specified length), with integers 0-255 as items,
> would be the most versatile value of such a procedure.

Except that you can already generate range-limited integers, so I
think there's no real loss here.

david rush
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