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.

"	bug	new	minor		core	1.4.0	low