Bug#794553: ITP: clrng -- OpenCL random number generation library

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/08/15 10:02, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Ghislain Antony Vaillant
>> <ghisvail@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Package: wnpp
>>> Severity: wishlist
>>> Owner: Ghislain Antony Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> * Package name    : clrng
>>>    Version         : 1.0.0
>>>    Upstream Author : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>>> * URL             : https://github.com/clMathLibraries/clRNG
>>> * License         : Apache version 2
>>>    Programming Lang: C++
>>>    Description     : OpenCL random number generation library
>>
>>
>> Pseudo-random ? Please use only random for true random (cryptographic
>> quality) number
>>
>
> No idea. Taken from the upstream project description:
>
> "A library for uniform random number generation in OpenCL."
according to documentation: Currently, the library implements the
following three generators: MRG31k3p [4], MRG32k3a [7], LFSR113 [8]
and Philox-4×32-10 [11] .

So I think pseudo random according to title of publication...


> Should I update the short description to:
> "OpenCL pseudo-random number generation library"

Yes you should

> then ?
>
> Cheers,
> Ghis