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Re: Pseudorandom Number Generator in Ansi X9.17

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis H.)
Tue Nov 15 10:10:07 2005

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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:00:11 -0600
From: "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com>
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Cc: Terence Joseph <tjormor@hotmail.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <4375ED0C.2050603@algroup.co.uk>

In Practical Cryptography, Schneier discusses a new PRNG design called Fort=
una.

It has some neat features.

He also discusses problems with the ANSI PRNG here:

http://www.schneier.com/paper-prngs.html
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