zofrex (James Sanderson)
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11/26/2020
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08:38 AM Ruby Misc #17319: Rename Random.urandom to os_random and document random data sources
- Thank for explaining the rationale behind the naming, I understand it now.
How would you feel about a patch just to update the documentation, and leave the method names as they are? The documentation still only lists openssl, urandom,...
11/13/2020
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- I don't think `raw_seed` is name that does a good job of communicating what this method does and what it can be used for. I know this method is *used* to seed the OpenSSL random number generator, but its functionality is more broad than ...
11/12/2020
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- I hear what you're saying about communicating that it is not coming from `/dev/random`. It's hard to communicate all of that in a method name, because it will be a different source on different OSes or OS versions.
> If we rename the me...
11/11/2020
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- [PR here](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/3760)
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- SecureRandom gets randomness from `Random.urandom`, which is a confusing name because `urandom` only uses /dev/urandom in some circumstances. On reading the `secure_random.rb` code this morning I got very confused how it was supporting "...