On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Tim May wrote: > As a meta-point, the world is not in short supply of lots of good RNGs, > ranging from Johnson noise detectors to very strong Blum-Blum-Shub > generators. The interesting stuff in crypto lies in other places.
I disagree here somewhat. Cryptography ttbomk doesn't have means of construction of provably strong PRNGs, especially scalable ones, and with lots of internal state (asymptotically approaching one-time pad properties), and those which can be mapped to silicon real estate efficiently both in time (few gate delays, >GBps data rates) and in space (the silicon real estate consumed for each bit of PRNG state). It is rather hard to get all these requirements under one hat.
