[5127] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: depleting the random number generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugene Leitl)
Sun Jul 18 03:00:32 1999
From: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:15:58 -0700 (PDT)
To: bram <bram@gawth.com>
Cc: John Denker <jsd@research.att.com>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9907171505270.21730-100000@ultra.gawth.com>
bram writes:
> I'm not sure if anybody's yarrowified /dev/random yet - I think someone
> from coderpunks was working on it.
Does anybody know how cellular automata perform re cryptographically
solid random number generators? They can crank out a lot of integers
with a minimum investment in instructions executed.