[5129] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: depleting the random number generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bram)
Sun Jul 18 06:23:58 1999
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:18:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: bram <bram@gawth.com>
To: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <14225.3665.57029.53475@lrz.de>
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> 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.
Most of the fancy reseedable PRNG schemes people have come up with are
based on using secure hashes.
-Bram
