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Randomness...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Wayner)
Mon May 2 12:54:58 1994

Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 12:54:21 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner)

>Timothy C. May says:
>> I don't think generating random numbers is all that much of a
>> priority. The Blum-Blum-Shub C code is available, and I defy anyone to
>> break _that_ PRNG!

Going in the other direction, does anyone know what sort of random
number generator is included with the Borland libraries? What about
the Microsoft ones? I'm kind of curious these days for a number of
reasons. 




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