Sorry, yes, that's kind of what I meant. Ultimately, I want to be able to seed an RNG with an alphanumeric string, and in other languages that means using a third-party library or writing one myself.
The `rand` crate in Rust is a de facto standard, but it's not an official standard, so that does technically mean trusting a third-party library. A lot of the Rust ecosystem is structured this way, in part because package management with Cargo is convenient.
