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diff --git a/vendor/rand/src/prng/mod.rs b/vendor/rand/src/prng/mod.rs deleted file mode 100644 index ed3e018..0000000 --- a/vendor/rand/src/prng/mod.rs +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -// Copyright 2017 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT -// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at -// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT. -// -// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or -// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license -// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your -// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed -// except according to those terms. - -//! Pseudo random number generators are algorithms to produce *apparently -//! random* numbers deterministically, and usually fairly quickly. -//! -//! So long as the algorithm is computationally secure, is initialised with -//! sufficient entropy (i.e. unknown by an attacker), and its internal state is -//! also protected (unknown to an attacker), the output will also be -//! *computationally secure*. Computationally Secure Pseudo Random Number -//! Generators (CSPRNGs) are thus suitable sources of random numbers for -//! cryptography. There are a couple of gotchas here, however. First, the seed -//! used for initialisation must be unknown. Usually this should be provided by -//! the operating system and should usually be secure, however this may not -//! always be the case (especially soon after startup). Second, user-space -//! memory may be vulnerable, for example when written to swap space, and after -//! forking a child process should reinitialise any user-space PRNGs. For this -//! reason it may be preferable to source random numbers directly from the OS -//! for cryptographic applications. -//! -//! PRNGs are also widely used for non-cryptographic uses: randomised -//! algorithms, simulations, games. In these applications it is usually not -//! important for numbers to be cryptographically *unguessable*, but even -//! distribution and independence from other samples (from the point of view -//! of someone unaware of the algorithm used, at least) may still be important. -//! Good PRNGs should satisfy these properties, but do not take them for -//! granted; Wikipedia's article on -//! [Pseudorandom number generators](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator) -//! provides some background on this topic. -//! -//! Care should be taken when seeding (initialising) PRNGs. Some PRNGs have -//! short periods for some seeds. If one PRNG is seeded from another using the -//! same algorithm, it is possible that both will yield the same sequence of -//! values (with some lag). - -mod chacha; -mod isaac; -mod isaac64; -mod xorshift; - -pub use self::chacha::ChaChaRng; -pub use self::isaac::IsaacRng; -pub use self::isaac64::Isaac64Rng; -pub use self::xorshift::XorShiftRng; |