On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Jose Mario Quintana <[email protected]> wrote: > The authors of the Mersenne Twister algorithm (which has > a larger period than GB_FLIP by many orders of magnitud) > have warned for a long time about using directly these kind of > "random" number generators for encrypting purposes (see > http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/efaq.html).
Encryption is not the only context where people might want to design an unpredictable system. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
