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Re: cryptographic ergodic sequence generators?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sat Sep 6 19:19:14 2003
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To: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 06 Sep 2003 19:08:46 -0400
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Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com> writes:
> The characteristic you ask for is exactly that of an n-bit block
> cipher in Counter Mode. For example, that's exactly why we developed
> Skip32, which is on our web page; we needed an unpredictable but
> non-repeating 32 bit nonce.
I was unaware there *were* any good 32 bit block ciphers out there,
thus the question. Certainly that would do better than most
possibilities for this, yes.
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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