On 2017-05-16, at 17:08, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > Q1: Mr. Google led me to this one: > http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/documentation_software.html No > idea in what language the software is written, did not DL it for myself, but > the description makes it look quite formal and professional. Plus it's > fairly recent (2010), and if you pay USA federal taxes it's yours to use > because your federal taxes paid for it. >
I had said that a quality solution shoulc be able to generate any of the possible permutations of 100,000 5-digit numbers. But if a program can do this based on the output of a pseudorandom number generator, such a PRNG must use a seed over a million bits long. -- gil
