-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Walter wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 00:22, Stuart Prescott wrote: >>The GSL documentation talks a bit about the different generators >>available and I highly recommend some of the references therein (Park & >>Miller and L'Ecuyer in particular). >> http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/gsl-ref_17.html
> Just for completeness to the random generators mentioned above. > If your system has '/dev/random' and/or '/dev/urandom' then you have > also a good random to read from. This is feed by several non > deterministic data available on your system. The more usage and traffic > you have, the better. Those random generators have to be avoided, except in very specific cases as they are not reproducable; there is no way to replay them. Yannick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDmJtoZY3s/IVpRFIRAhWVAKCZBuHVHPpzr5lHumXfBJcpDSidIQCfTlpn 72ZoHJeAXhK+ea58+TGQf4Y= =b3WV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]