[104689] in Cypherpunks
Re: PRNGs and testers.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mok-Kong Shen)
Tue Oct 27 05:25:20 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:20:17 +0100
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
CC: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
David Honig wrote:
>
> At 09:47 AM 10/26/98 +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
> >What if some PRNGs pass Maurer's test?
> I'd find it surprising if any did, given what I described.
I believe that there are quite a number. If I am allowed to cite
my own stuff, a PRNG of my design did pass Maurer's test. See
http://www.stud.uni-muenchen.de/~mok-kong.shen/#paper1
and
http://www.stud.uni-muenchen.de/~mok-kong.shen/#paper9
M. K. Shen