On Mar 13, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Travis wrote:
[...] would people like to help me create one by emailing me references to extant PRNG definitions?
This paper describes the architecture of a prototype I built at Sun back in 1995 for a random number generating service that ran in user land. It went through a couple revisions, and eventually got ported to the kernel in Solaris 10.
<http://wikis.sun.com/download/attachments/100794535/CryptoRand- Soley96.pdf>
The revisions since the paper were fairly minor: using a bigger entropy pool, improving the entropy estimation algorithm, and tweaking the bleed function. I am not sure what changes were made when it was ported to the kernel as I was not directly involved. Unfortunately, the details of the revisions are only documented in the source code.
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