From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-08-17T03:25:56+09:00
Subject: ANN: Crypt::ISAAC 0.9

This is to announce the release of Crypt::ISAAC, a pure Ruby implementation 
of the ISAAC psuedo-random number generator.  ISAAC is an algorithm for 
generating cryptographically secure psuedo-random numbers.  This library has 
been part of the Iowa package for a couple of years.  This version will 
become the canonical version, however.

Crypt::ISAAC can be used to setup multiple independent streams of random 
numbers, and offers a simple interface identical to that of Kernel.rand():


require 'crypt/isaac'

rng1 = Crypt::ISAAC.new
rng2 = Crypt::ISAAC.new

ri1 = rng1.rand(1000000)
ri2 = rng2.rand(1000000)
rf1 = rng1.rand
rf2 = rng2-rand

puts "#{ri1} -- #{ri2}"
puts "#{rf1} -- #{rf2}"


I am releasing the library as version 0.9 just because while I have been 
using it for a couple of years, nobody else has ever looked at it, so there 
may well be some tweaks and nudges to bits of it before I call it 1.0.


Kirk Haines