Splittable Pseudorandom Number Generation for Rust

This crate provides traits for splittable pseudorandom number generators, and a simple implementation based on SipHash.

This is not a cryptographic random number generator

While the random number generator included here (SipRng) is based on a cryptographic primitive, it has not been designed or evaluated for security.

Documentation

Documentation

TODO/nice-to-haves

• Integration with some sort of lazy evaluation mechanism.
• Integration with some sort of parallel execution mechanism.

References

• Aumasson, Jean-Philippe and Daniel J. Bernstein. 2012. "SipHash: a fast short-input PRF." Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2012/351.
• Claessen, Koen and Michał H. Pałka. 2013. "Splittable Pseudorandom Number Generators using Cryptographic Hashing." Haskell '13: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Haskell, pp. 47-58.
• Pałka, Michał H. tf-random Haskell library.
• Schaathun, Hans Georg. 2015. "Evaluation of Splittable Pseudo-Random Generators." Journal of Functional Programming, Vol. 25.