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Re: PRNG design document?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Shaw)
Fri Aug 22 11:12:54 2003
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From: David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:57:32AM -0400, Tim Dierks wrote:
> Is there a definitive or highly recommended paper or book on the design of
> PRNGs?
>
> I'm assuming a cryptographic PRNG of the type in OpenSSL, PGP, etc., where
> entropic seeding data is accumulated into a pool and output is produced by
> operating on the pool with a secure hash or similar cryptographic algorithm.
"Software Generation of Practically Strong Random Numbers" by Peter
Gutmann
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/usenix98.pdf
and the followup:
http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/06_random.pdf
David
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