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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: New RNGs in the PragmARCs
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:45:48 -0700
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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.