On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:21:08PM +0100, Bengt Kleberg wrote: > greetings, > > the srfi states that 'random-integer-generator is the only way to get > random bits from a random generator'. since most cryptographical > algorithms use not integers, but arrays of bytes, would it not be > useful to also specify a procedure that generates this kind of random bits? > > perhaps a list (of specified length), with integers 0-255 as items, > would be the most versatile value of such a procedure. > Or perhaps a string of bytes. Many Scheme systems support binary data in this fashion. Scott
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