Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Next Monday (01/09/2003), at 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once again > meet to hear Oleg Goldshmidt talk about: > > Pseudo-, Quasi-, and Real Random Numbers > > You are all invited! More info on how to get to the meeting etc. at > the haifux website: http://www.haifux.org (temporarily down, > http://haifux.berlios.de is up but not up to date)
Those who are planning to come to the talk should take into consideration that I am not going to explain how to construct a good random number generator. Rolling out your own random generators is really non-trivial, tricky, difficult, and dangerous, and I strongly advise against it unless you really know what you are doing. If you *do* really know what you are doing you probably won't learn much from this talk. What this talk will deal with is how to distinguish random sequences from those that are merely higgledy-piggledy, what methods and software exist for that, how random rand(3) is on your linux box, why the linux kernel needs random numbers, what it does to achieve this objective, and how it manages to keep randomness between reboots. Oh, and why pseudo-random sequences are not always good enough and we need quasi-random ones as well ;-) The most impatiently curious can find a preliminary set of slides (I promise this is not all you'll see at the lecture) at http://www.goldshmidt.org/about/lectures.html. After the talk (or, maybe, just before the talk) the final set of slides will be put there. Thanks, -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
