Re: Requesting namespace Bytes::Random::Secure

2012-09-07 Thread brian d foy
[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]] In article , David Oswald wrote: > > No objection, other than it would be nice to have a single module that > > provided all of it. Could you add your stuff to the existing module? > > M

Re: Requesting namespace Bytes::Random::Secure

2012-09-07 Thread David Oswald
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:58 AM, brian d foy wrote: > > David Oswald wrote: > >> So if there are no objections, I'd like to request the namespace >> Bytes::Random::Secure. > > No objection, other than it would be nice to have a single module that > provided all of it. Could you add your stuff to t

Re: Requesting namespace Bytes::Random::Secure

2012-09-07 Thread brian d foy
[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]] In article , David Oswald wrote: > So if there are no objections, I'd like to request the namespace > Bytes::Random::Secure. No objection, other than it would be nice to have a single mod

Requesting namespace Bytes::Random::Secure

2012-09-06 Thread David Oswald
There's a module on CPAN: Bytes::Random. The module I'm proposing provides the same functionality: my $bytes = random_bytes( $number_of_bytes );. But it does so using the random number generator provided by Math::Random::Secure, rather than Perl's native rand(). It also adds random_bytes_base64,