From: daw@dawn9.CS.Berkeley.EDU (David A Wagner)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 18:44:22 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: True random numbers
Message-ID: <199602201017.FAA06008@bb.hks.net>
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In article <9602191812.AA07312@toad.com>,  <eli+@GS160.SP.CS.CMU.EDU> wrote:
> Persi Diaconis gave a talk here last week on pseudorandom generation,
> during which he was asked by people didn't use hardware RNGs.  He said
> that he wasn't aware of any that passed the standard battery of
> statistical tests.

Well, he's just being silly then.

Throw the true random numbers into a hash function, and voila! they
pass all the standard battery of tests.

The hard part, IMHO, is figuring out how much true entropy you've got.
(Estimate, but be very conservative!  Mistakes are costly.)
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