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ABaDooRand is a library that produces anti-backdoor pseudo-random numbers, thus, cryptographically secure PRNG (CSPRNG) and RNG (CSRNG). Since PRISM and Snowden 2013-2014 revelations, we by principle don't want to trust any library proposed for cryptography or random numbers, nor hardware random sources. The present library is an attempt to provide counter-measures against possible backdoors. The principle is to use at least two independent wellknown open-source libraries and to xor numbers produced by each of them. Of course, this is obtained at the cost of more cpu, so a batch of ready numbers is provided for immediate fetch.
In addition, both engines are used to periodically re-seed the other with independent periods, one being a prime.
ABaDooRand provides 32 bits and 64 bits getters.
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At present time, we use full gsl random generators capabilities with the uniform distribution. Libraries are dynamically linked and shall be available on your system.
- Add other distributions than uniform
- Add a batch to have a bag of ready random draws for tremendous performance
- Add the cryptographic random generatorlibSodium CurveCP stream generator
- Add the cryptographic random generator Fortuna
- Add gsl-like API to be able to test ABaDooRand with DieHarder
- Provide performance comparisons
- Add reseed periods parametrization, and ressed (de)activation since some algorithms like Fortuna embeds this feature.
- Add Autotools and CMake features
- Add documentation
- Re-implement the libsodium generator to make it deterministic when "pseudo RNG" is choosen.
- Add a plugin abstraction mechanism for random sources.
TODO: Cf the INSTALL file included with the distribution. CMakeLists.txt, configure.ac and Makefile.am are in draft state.
Cf tests/ABaDooRand_test.cpp
TODO: Documentation is provided with the distribution. Refer to doc/abadoorand.html, or "man abadoorand" after you have installed ABaDooRand on your system.
Mailing list: abadoorand@freelists.org
Git repository: http://github.com/lalebarde/abadoorand
Cf here.