1994-04-15 - Re: rng, anyone?

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From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204)
To: cat@soda.berkeley.edu
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From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 22:50:17 PDT
To: cat@soda.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re:  rng, anyone?
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> need good RNG
WHile Blum-Blum-Shub is probably the cool way to go,
RSAREF uses repeated iterations of MD5 to generate its pseudo-randoms,
which can be reasonably secure and use code you've probably already got
hooks from perl for.





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