Re: cryptographic ergodic sequence generators?

2003-10-15 Thread John S. Denker
Perry E. Metzger wrote: I've noted to others on this before that for an application like the IP fragmentation id, it might be even better if no repeats occurred in any block of 2^31 (n being 32) but the sequence did not repeat itself (or at least could be harmlessly reseeded at very very long

Re: cryptographic ergodic sequence generators?

2003-09-07 Thread David Wagner
Perry E. Metzger wrote: I've noted to others on this before that for an application like the IP fragmentation id, it might be even better if no repeats occurred in any block of 2^31 (n being 32) but the sequence did not repeat itself (or at least could be harmlessly reseeded at very very long