From: Jack Mott <thecrow@iconn.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 15:33:07 +0800
To: Jeremey Barrett <jeremey@forequest.com>
Subject: Re: spinner entropy
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Jeremey Barrett wrote:
> 
>  Wei Dai writes:
> > Do we have other candidates for portable software RNGs?
> >
> >
> 
> What is more important, good portable software RNGs or good portable
> seeding mechanisms?  Seems to me there are good RNGs out there, but
> there is virtually no way to portably guarantee a good seed.
> 
> Netscape's RNG was probably good as any, but their seed sucked, so they
> got cracked.

Take an RC4 state box.  grab 30 or so random seeds from a hardware device, use them 
to mix the state box, and use the rest of RC4 to grab random values. Just an idea, 
very fast at least.
-- 
thecrow@iconn.net
"It can't rain all the time"

RSA ENCRYPTION IN 3 LINES OF PERL
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