On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 06:09:15PM -0400, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:
> RFC 1750 recommends the Blum Blum Shub generator.
Which is pretty slow- on the order of an RSA public key operation.
A hardware RNG would be the best solution. It won't help the
original poster now, but I think that hardware RNGs will become
more common in the next year or two.
Another solution besides those already mentioned is to use quality
random bits to seed a good PRNG and then hash together with the PRNG
output what random bits the machine can generate at the rate required.
> From: bram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:18:20 -0700 (PDT)
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> >> Does anybody know how cellular automata perform re cryptographically
> >> solid random number generators? They can crank out a lot of integers
> >> with a minimum investment in instructions executed.
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> >Most of the fancy reseedable PRNG schemes people have come up with are
> >based on using secure hashes.
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> >-Bram
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