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Subject: Re: Ada implementation of Mersenne Twister (MT19937)
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Christoph Grein <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1012287362.30277.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
> > From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
> > 
> > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:00:25 +0100, Christoph & Ursula Grein wrote:
> > > I've an implementation together with a test driver. It produces the
> > > prescribed result.  Whoever is interested I will send.
> > 
> > A random number generator that produces the prescribed result doesn't
> > sound very good ;-)
> 
> I see your smiley on this, but seriously, you can get unpredictable 
> random 
> numbers only from physical devices like radioactive decay etc.

Did anyone try to access something like the INTEL Random Number Generator
http://www.cryptography.com/intelRNG.pdf
 or the ComScire PCQNG true RNG
http://comscire.com/
 from an Ada Program?

Hugo Pfoertner