id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
923,Make RNG algorithm used by rand dynop pluggable,japhb,,"Parrot's current PRNG is an old-style LCG: decent speed, but relatively poor randomness characteristics.  According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister at least PHP, Python, and Ruby use the more advanced (but still not cryptographically secure) Mersenne Twister in their standard libraries.  Users from those languages will expect the higher-quality PRNG, so we should do at least as well -- either by switching to a free Mersenne Twister implementation, or by choosing an even more advanced algorithm instead.

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