[43129] in Cypherpunks
Re: True Random (short c-source)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Wed Nov 8 20:23:59 1995
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: frank@funcom.no (Frank Andrew Stevenson)
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 20:11:42 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.91.951108165325.25592A-100000@odin> from "Frank Andrew Stevenson" at Nov 8, 95 04:54:43 pm
Frank Andrew Stevenson wrote:
| I have written a short random number generator which appears to produce
| reasonable random numbers even in DOS, at the heart of the code is the
| short function fGetRand, the amount of entropy derived from this
What tests have you done on the output that causes you to say
the random numbers are 'reasonable'?
Adam
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