[67718] in Cypherpunks
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?
Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security
Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk
Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org
Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/
Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1
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