1994-05-02 - Randomness…

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From: pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner)
Date: Mon, 2 May 94 09:49:59 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Randomness...
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>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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