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BBS generator

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk)
Wed Oct 9 19:51:50 1996

From: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 17:25:01 +0000


Does anyone here know the approximate ammount of output from a BBS 
PRNG needed to predict with some certainty the next bit or bits? - is 
the generator totally secure, ie. do you need to factor to predict or 
is there an attack using the output?


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