From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Subject: Re: New RNGs in the PragmARCs
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:45:48 -0700
Date: 2013-08-11T16:45:48-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7xiozb23mb.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ku906a$hr1$6@dont-email.me
PragmAda Software Engineering <pragmada@pragmada.x10hosting.com> writes:
> a "combined" RNG that combines both the Universal and KISS generators ..
> I hope those of you who are into RNGs will take a look and provide feedback.
My feeling is it's not worth doing this. There should be a fast RNG
with reasonable statistics (Mersenne Twister) and there should be a
cryptographic RNG that can be slower but is built to withstand
adversarial analysis.
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2013-08-11 21:37 New RNGs in the PragmARCs PragmAda Software Engineering
2013-08-11 23:45 ` Paul Rubin [this message]
2013-08-12 0:04 ` Shark8
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