From: Carl Ellison <cme@clark.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 95 14:58:45 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: PRNG conditioning
Message-ID: <199501282258.RAA28933@clark.net>
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I just posted:

From: cme@clark.net (Carl Ellison)
Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.math.num-analysis,sci.stat,sci.stat.math,comp.simulation,sci.crypt,sci.crypt.research
Subject: Pseudo-random number conditioning toolkit
Date: 28 Jan 1995 17:41:58 -0500

a pointer to my PRNG conditioning tools as UNIX processes, to be found
under:

	ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/cme

These include:

1.	ranG
a PRNG (either MD5 or SWB [subtract-with-borrow]), seeded by stdin and
writing stdout;

2.	ranH
an MD5 conditioner (takes w bytes from stdin, writes 15 or 16 bytes to
stdout);

3.	ranM
algorithm M -- (cf., Knuth vol.2) -- fed by either an internal SWB
generator or a [pipe|file|device] whose name is given as a parameter.

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4.	ranD
using DES to condition stdin to stdout isn't there, thanks to the ITAR.
I've sent a copy to Mark at ripem.msu.edu.

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 - Carl