From: Jose Mario Quintana <[email protected]> > 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).
For more than a decade, your desktop has had an electronic RNG based on thermal noise. Here is an intro (not very useful): http://www.intel.com/assets/pdf/manual/298029.pdf Your OS will let you use it. Linux reference: http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/hw_random.txt Note that I never used it. ~ Gilles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
