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Re: PRNG design document?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edwin Woudt)
Mon Aug 25 20:01:21 2003
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 03:08:10 -0400
From: Edwin Woudt <edwin@woudt.nl>
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>,
Tim Dierks <tim@dierks.org>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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--On Friday, August 22, 2003 02:44 -0700 Bill Stewart
<bill.stewart@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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",
There is a successor to Yarrow called Fortuna, which is supposedly better.
Details are in the book 'Practical Cryptography' by Niels Ferguson and
Bruce Schneier.
Edwin
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