1995-11-09 - Re: True Random (short c-source)

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
To: frank@funcom.no (Frank Andrew Stevenson)
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Message ID: <199511090111.UAA07637@homeport.org>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-11-09 02:30:41 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 10:30:41 +0800

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 10:30:41 +0800
To: frank@funcom.no (Frank Andrew Stevenson)
Subject: Re: True Random (short c-source)
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Frank Andrew Stevenson wrote:

| I have written a short random number generator which appears to produce
| reasonable random numbers even in DOS, at the heart of the code is the
| short function fGetRand, the amount of entropy derived from this

	What tests have you done on the output that causes you to say
the random numbers are 'reasonable'?

Adam

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