On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:57:32AM -0400, Tim Dierks wrote: > Is there a definitive or highly recommended paper or book on the design of > PRNGs? > > I'm assuming a cryptographic PRNG of the type in OpenSSL, PGP, etc., where > entropic seeding data is accumulated into a pool and output is produced by > operating on the pool with a secure hash or similar cryptographic algorithm.
"Software Generation of Practically Strong Random Numbers" by Peter Gutmann http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/usenix98.pdf and the followup: http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/06_random.pdf David --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
