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Re: depleting the random number generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald E. Eastlake 3rd)
Mon Jul 19 00:51:08 1999
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:18:20 PDT."
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 18:09:15 -0400
From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3@torque.pothole.com>
RFC 1750 recommends the Blum Blum Shub generator.
Donald
From: bram <bram@gawth.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:18:20 -0700 (PDT)
To: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
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>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
>
>
