From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c76113b004e50a06 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Iredell Eachus Subject: Re: Gnat Chat, Random Numbers in GNAT Date: 2000/02/09 Message-ID: <38A0EFA2.5BAB72BE@earthlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 583521400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <389CBCBF.1DE4F0F@earthlink.net> <389D1B45.973F3A30@earthlink.net> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-ELN-Date: Tue Feb 8 20:36:15 2000 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 950070975 63.24.56.109 (Tue, 08 Feb 2000 20:36:15 PST) Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 20:36:15 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Kent Paul Dolan wrote: > Robert Iredell Eachus wrote: > > Nothing quite so confuses the mind as two authors with the same email box. Slip of the tongue, or whatever. I was swapping some things around in Netscape, to set my wife up to use Netscape for mail, and confused myself and replied to some messages from her account on my home computer, but using my account to read newsgroups. > That a bit overstates my glorious CPU cycle surplus. Not really, from what you say below. Over four million generations is coming close to looping a 32-bit seed. Technically, the gnat generator becomes non-cryptographically secure when you use more than p or q values, but that is probably only of theoretical interest. When you start exceeding N (= p*q) values, then start worrying, but that is on the order of 2**49...