On 8/19/2013 11:45 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
ianG <i...@iang.org> writes:
On a related point, what name do we give to the design/pattern for
entropy sources ==> mix/pool ==> deterministic expansion function
?
"The standard way to do things"? Or "a standard CSPRNG" (continually seeded
PRNG).
Peter.
I annoyed a cryptographer by calling it the cascade construction RNG in
Intel documentation for RdRand.
It appears to be sticking in some places.
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