Travis <travis+ml-cryptogra...@subspacefield.org> writes: >I have never seen a good catalog of computationally-strong pseudo-random >number generators. It seems that everyone tries to roll their own in >whatever application they are using, and I bet there's a lot of waste and >inefficiency and re-inventing the wheel involved. > >If this true, or is there a survey somewhere?
I did a (hopefully) reasonably comprehensive analysis of what was around in the late 90s in my thesis, available via http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/2310 (there's an updated version available as "Cryptographic security architecture: design and verification", published by Springer), specifically chapter 6, "Random number generation". This covers PRNGs from AC2, X9.17, PGP 5.x, /dev/random, Skip, ssh (that is, the ssh.com implementation), SSLeay/OpenSSL, CryptoAPI, Capstone/Fortezza, the Intel PIII generator, and some other bits. Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com