Re: Settings, Options bug

[Philippe Michel]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 04:29:37AM +0100, Daniel Ricketts wrote:

> Whenever I go to Settings > Options lately, the program just shuts 
> down. I wanted to change the dice rolling program (not a fan of 
> Mercennes Twister).

Did you change the random number generator to Blum, Blum ad Shub ? In 
this case, it is probably this bug : 
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57892

This is specific to BBS. The other RNGs should be fine. Deleting your 
configuration file as suggested by Christian, or editing it to remove 
the "set rng ..." line should fix the issue.

What don't you like in Mersenne twister ? If it is that it is not 
cryptographically strong, ISAAC could be an alternative. From what I 
read it has not been studied as much as BBS in this regard, but is 
presumed to be strong.

FWIW, I can add the Xoshiro RNG to GNUbg. I wrote the code and tested it 
a bit, but finally didn't add it since it seemed pointless to have a 
larger collection of dice generators. Still, if someone make a credible 
case for it, it would be easy to do.