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Re: PRNG design document?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Fri Aug 22 11:15:04 2003
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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:44:26 -0700
To: Tim Dierks <tim@dierks.org>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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At 11:57 AM 08/19/2003 -0400, Tim Dierks wrote:
>Is there a definitive or highly recommended paper or book on the design of
>PRNGs?
Go look at "Yarrow",
and also the discussions about /dev/random and /dev/urandom
(or at least their documentation.)
As far as "definitive", that depends a lot on what you're
trying to accomplish by designing a new system.
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